SadaqahStories: A Verified English-Arabic Corpus of Charity Stories for Children, with an Audit of Errors in AI-Drafted Religious Narratives

arXiv:2611.12078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SadaqahStories, a parallel English-Arabic corpus of 41 illustrated four-page stories about charitable giving in Islam (Sadaqah, Zakat and Waqf), written for readers aged 7 to 18. The stories were first drafted with large language model (LLM) assistance, then audited against hadith collections, Qur'an references and historical sources, and finally rewritten for children and signed off by an Islamic scholar. Every story carries an evidence label and links to its sources. We release all three versions of each story (AI-assisted draft, audited text, final child-oriented text) together with the correction log, so the corpus can be used to study how AI drafts of religious and historical content go wrong. The audit found substantive errors in 39 of the 41 drafts. The most frequent were unsupported specific details (dates, figures, prices, names), invented quotations, institutions or anecdotes, and conflation of separate events or people; six drafts contained errors in the wording, grading or ruling of a religious text. Rewriting cut the estimated Flesch-Kincaid grade of the English text from 14.0 to 6.1. We also release an 81-entry charity lexicon covering Modern Standard Arabic and Qatari Arabic, and describe the free, account-free website that serves the corpus (https://sadaqahjourney.com).