Who was the first person to write down the Koran?

Answer 1

Several people made up, uh, wrote the Koran. It has been revised so much nobody can take full credit.

Answer 2

islamic belief holds that the angel Gabriel spoke the Qur'an to the prophet Muhhamad and was ordered to recite (because he could not read or write). Muhammad later taught the Qur'an to the followers he gained shortly thereafter, who wrote these teachings on anything they could find, such as bark or leaves, or paper if available. After Muhammad's death, Abu Bakr compiled these teachings to form the original Qur'an which was copied and spread by the Muslims. As time elapsed differing copies of the Qur'an appeared. This was a huge issue because of the Islamic belief that the word of God could not be corrupted, and the 3rd caliph after Muhammad's death, Uthman, ordered that all copies of the Qur'an be gathered. They studied each text, and what was deemed as original was compiled to make the Qur'an we see today. All of the manuscripts and parchments or bark and leaves were then destroyed to prevent further corruption, the only issue being that now we have now way of performing a textual study to actually show that the current Qur'an is the original.

Answer 3

Only thing I'll add to Cha C's answer, for what it's worth since it's just from Wikipedia, is that Uthman's standardization of the text was done c. 650, only about 20 years after Muhammad's death.

Answer 4

Shart Al-Bullshitter

Answer 5

That was Bob.