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37. paarsurrey Says:
July 8th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Further to my post #22, in this thread, I would like to add further :
Whenever any portion of the Quran was revealed to the Holy
Prophet, he used to commit it to memory and, as he continuously
recited the Quran from one end to the other, he always
carried the whole of the revealed Quran at all times in his
memory. In addition to this the following devices were
adopted for safe-guarding and preserving intact the text of
the Quran (in writing also) :
(I) As soon as a revelation was received by the Holy Prophet
it was recorded in writing from his dictation. A number of
persons are known to have been employed by the Holy Prophet
for this purpose. Of these the names of the following fifteen
have been mentioned in the traditions (Fath al-Bari, Vol. 9,
p. 19) :
I. Zaid bin Thabit.
2. Ubayy ibn Ka’b.
3. ‘Abdullah bin Sa’d bin Abi Sarh.
4. Zubair bin al-’Awwam.
5. Khalid bin Sa’id bin al-’As.
6. Aban bin Sa’id bin al-’As.
7. Hanzala bin al-Rabi’ al-Asadi.
8. Mu’aiqib bin Abi Fatima.
9. ‘Abdullah bin Arqam al-Zuhri.
10. Shurahbil bin Hasana.
1 I. ‘Abdullah bin Rawaha.
12. Abu Bakr.
13. ‘Umar.
14. ‘Uthman.
15. ‘Ali
.
Whenever the Holy Prophet received a revelation, he would
send for one of these persons and dictate to him the text of the
revelation he had received.
(2) As is well known, the five daily congregational prayers are
obligatory upon every Muslim and a portion of the Quran must
be recited in each of them so that every Muslim knows some
portion of the Quran by heart. If every hundred out of the
Prophet’s Companions who numbered more than one hundred
thousand had between them learnt the whole of the Quran
by heart the entire Quran must have been preserved in the
memory of his Companions a thousand times over.
(3) The whole of the Law, doctrine, philosophy, moral
precepts and other teachings of Islam are contained in the
Quran. The building up and the fostering of a nation require
the aid of all these. The Holy Prophet used to train Muslims
for the discharge of the multifarious duties and functions
involved in the building up and direction of a civilized and
cultured community. For instance, there were needed judges,
jurists, expounders of doctrine and those who explained the
legal and moral injunctions of Islam and these people could not
adequately discharge their functions unless they had learnt the
Quran by heart. All such people, therefore, were under the
necessity of committing the entire Quran to memory.
(4) The Holy Prophet used always to stress the meritoriousness
of committing the Quran to memory, so much so that he is
reported as having said that if a person commits the Quran to
memory he would be saved from the torment of Hell. God
had blessed the Holy Prophet with Companions who were
always eager to acquire merit in every way so that when he made
this announcement very large numbers from among them began
to commit the Quran to memory, including those whose enunciation
was not very clear and who were not men of any learning
at all. Imam Ahmad Hanbal has related on the authority of
’Abdullah bin ‘Umar that a man came to the Holy Prophet
and said to him : “0 Messenger of Allah ! I memorize the
Quran but my mind does not grasp its full meaning.”
This shows that not only men of learning but even the common
people were in the habit of committing the Quran to memory.
Another tradition, related by Iman Ahmad Hanbal on the
same authority, states that a man brought his son to the Holy
Prophet and said : “0 Messenger of Allah ! this son of mine
goes on reciting the Quran the whole day and spends his night
in sleep.” The Holy Prophet observed : “Then where is the
occasion for you to worry ? Your son spends the day in the
remembrance of God and instead of committing any transgression
at night spends it in restful sleep.” This shows that
even the common people living at a distance from the Holy
Prophet had started the practice of committing the Quran to
memory.
(5) As the eagerness of the people for memorizing the Quran
increased, the Holy Prophet appointed four principal teachers
of the Quran who used to memorize it under the supervision of
the Holy Prophet and then taught other people to commit it to
memory. These four in turn trained a number of other
people who became competent to teach the Quran. These four
were :
I. ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud.
2. Salim Maula Abi Hudhaifa.
3. Mu’adh bin Jabal.
4. Ubayy ibn Ka’b.
The first two of these were Meccans who had migrated to
Medina and the last two were Ansaris. ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud
used to occupy himself as a labourer, Salim was a freed slave,
and Mu’adh and Ubayy were two of the leading men of Medina.
Thus the Holy Prophet appointed teachers of the Quran from
among different sections so that nobody should have any
difficulty in approaching them and learning from them. The
Holy Prophet used to say : “Those of you who wish to learn
the Quran should learn it from ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud, Salim
Maula Abi Hudhaifa, Mu’adh bin Jabal or Ubayy ibn Ka’b”
(Muslim).
These four had learnt the whole of the Quran
under the supervision of the Holy Prophet. But many other
Companions of the Holy Prophet had also learnt portions of it
directly from him. It is related that on one occasion when
’Abdullah bin Mas’ud was reciting the Quran ‘Umar pointed
out that a certain word should be pronounced in a particular
way. ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud protested that he had been
taught by the Holy Prophet to pronounce it in the manner in
which he had pronounced it. ‘Umar took him to the Holy
Prophet and complained that he did not recite the Quran
correctly. The Holy Prophet asked him to recite the portion
concerning which there was a difference of opinion between the
two and when he recited it the Prophet said he was quite right.
Thereupon ‘Umar submitted that he had been taught by the
Prophet to pronounce the word differently. The Prophet then
asked him to recite the verse and when he did so, told him that
that was also correct.
http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Introduction-Study-Holy-Quran.pdf
The written Quran is, therefore, only a reflection of what Muhammad and his companions had committed to their memory originally .
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Thanks
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