Pith Number

pith:WIN6CH4Q

pith:2026:WIN6CH4Q7QGPPRPL2T6R7XA5JF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From RAG to Agentic RAG for Faithful Islamic Question Answering

Fadi Zaraket, Firoj Alam, Gagan Bhatia, George Mikros, Hamdy Mubarak, Kareem Darwish, Logan Cochrane, Mahmoud Alhirthani, Mustafa Jarrar, Mutaz Al-Khatib, Rashid Yahiaoui

arxiv:2601.07528 v2 · 2026-01-12 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIN6CH4Q7QGPPRPL2T6R7XA5JF}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-23T01:12:00.186654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b21be11f90fc0cf7c5ebd4fd1fdc1d496cf8fc2425934d8ba32d418017fd9d3a

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.07528 · arxiv_version: 2601.07528v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.07528 · pith_short_12: WIN6CH4Q7QGP · pith_short_16: WIN6CH4Q7QGPPRPL · pith_short_8: WIN6CH4Q

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WIN6CH4Q7QGPPRPL2T6R7XA5JF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b21be11f90fc0cf7c5ebd4fd1fdc1d496cf8fc2425934d8ba32d418017fd9d3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1398e714860456635d9705ddd77c2fb73c511e6675c1692abc9a6f35007a30b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-12T13:28:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e770b16ccf57e7634c457404a86ead9182398e6e7e215bfb838a8e9fe03fe9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.07528",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}