Nobody knows where the original Quran is. The Quran that we have in our hands now is called the Uthman's Quran, which was collected long after Mohammed's death. Parts of the original Quran must have been lost, after many of the reciters of the Quran died or were killed in battle. Uthman, the third Caliph (successor of Mohammed) gathered what was left of the Quran, arranged it by length of Surahs rather than chronologically, then burned all other existing copies.
Maybe this is wrong and the original Quran exists. Where is it or if not where is the oldest copy and when was it written?
2007-02-25
00:21:52
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About a year after Muhammad's death, as we learn from Bukhari, the Qur'an was first put together in a collected whole. This was done by Zaid ibn Thabit
"to collect the Qur'an " it is evident that the book had not previously been formed into one united whole.
Zaid on the conclusion of his work handed over the manuscript, written doubtless in the so-called Cufic character, to Abu Bakr. The latter preserved it carefully until his death, when it was committed to the custody of 'Umar, after whose decease it passed into the charge of Hafsah, his daughter, one of Muhammad's widows
Uthman commissioned Zaid, in conjunction with three members of Muhammad's own tribe, the Quraish, to produce a recension of the work.
Zaid recollected a verse which was not in the first copy.
My Question is not has the Quran been changed, even there is evidence for the change after Uthman, but has the original Quran handet to Abu Bakar survived as a whole with its original manuscripts.
2007-02-25
02:46:38 ·
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