Compilation of The Quran [Split]

[Ibn_Sadique]

Re: Compilation of The Quran [Split]

Brother ravage – Sorry to get to back to this, I just remembered a very important point which should have been raised much earlier.

This hadith quoted in my post no. 2:

http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showpost.php?p=4025637&postcount=2

Hz. Umar bin Al Khattab (ra) requests Hz. Abu Bakr (ra) to collect the Quran in book form as a large number of hufaz and qura’a perished the Battle of Yamama.

It is safe to say that all the hufaz had learned the Qur’an from the Prophet (saw).

Question arises: What was the method used by the Hufaz in committing the Quran to the memory:

1. Haphazard - Each Hafiz remembering the Suras in his own particular/unique sequence?

2. Chronological order –compiled by Hz. Ali (ra)? (As claimed by the Shia – the Best version)

3. Or the Quran which the Prophet (saw) the taught the Hufaz? (As claimed by the Sunni – only version)

There is just an odd note of compilation of Quran in chronological order by Hz. Ali. Yet there in no physical proof of it.

The 2 dozen Quran believed to be written by Hz. Ali (ra) and the Shia Imams (ra) that you say are on display in Mashad, are they in chronological order? This can be very easily verified, can’t it?

@ravage

so you’re free to replace estimate with whatever word you wish, from what Ibn Sadique says on the last page, a committe sat down, there were some issues about orderings, which they sorted out, which suggests to me a much less clear-cut process than what would occur if the Prophet explicitly told the order.

There were many Hufaz around at that time, it is well documented that the differences among the few of the Sahabah (raa) on the sequence of ayahs were very minor and few in nature. Just a few ayahs here or there. This is understandable keeping human nature (to forget or err) in mind.

Once the Quran compilation was agreed upon there was no dispute except as narrated in books about Hz. Ali’s (ra) stance. So, only one voice of dissent?