Blogging Theology, Excellent Topic. Thank you for this gift. Wondering if you could arrange a sequel to this on the topic of "The History of the Quranic Text" based on the authoritative book with the same title by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami? That would help lot of people. To the rest, I highly recommend this authoritative book "The History of the Quranic Text" by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami.
We in Malaysia read according to Hafs 'an 'Asim. Once in a while some imam when they want to recite different Qira'at they will announce it first before solat.
This is better. I wish people read more qiraat in salah. It's really fun to hear but yeah, sometimes people get a little touchy with it since they're not always familiar with what it is.
Salam I love getting information from your blog Islam has so much information as a western Muslim woman I am trying to learn as much as I can. Thank you so much for spending all the time for teaching us the laws and ethics of Islam may Allah bless Allah of us. Thank you.
Topics like this show the benefit of having Bassam Zawadi as an interviewer with Blogging Theology. A topic like this is something he would be better able to engage with and elucidate points in a deeper way. Wise choice by Paul.
Thanks so much for this interesting topic. The aspects of the Qur’an in Seven ahruf can be viewed as one of the miraculous aspects that made the Qur’an the only dynamic book in the world until today, as what is known in human literature is that the author formulates his book so that his ideas carry one meaning, and thus they are static books. As for the Qur’an It was memorized in this dynamic way from the time of the Prophet, from which the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him told his companions that the Qur’an bears facets (He meant 7 Ahruf). What is meant by a dynamic book is that it copes with the changes of life. For example, you may find a word in the singular form in one reading and it is replaced by another word in the plural form in another reading, and both of them are correct and complete each other. As Muslims, we believe that all these Ahruf were revealed by God to the Prophet through Gabriel, and this is what the Prophet himself announced, and we believe in him because we believe that he brought other matters greater than that, and this is the important thing about this topic, even his enemies of Quraish didn't even dare to speak or doubt about this unusual book, and Allah SWT through the Qur'an challenged them to give even small chapter like it. ____________ On the other hand, the real problem is the Bible. Why? Because the early or the recent Christians (didn't) do not have the slightest idea about its origin, and they have no proof that Moses or Jesus had announced it as it is now, they don't even have a connected chain of narrators until now about their sacred book. Really, I advice the honest Christians to think rationality not emotionally of what they believe, because the truth comes by thinking and asking rational questions, as the truth not necessarily inherited from the ancestors. May Allah guide them to the straight path. Thanks
This is just incredible. So comprehensive. Masha Allah. May Allah immensely reward the people who contributed to Blogging Theology for making such deep knowledge accesible. I realize these subjects aren't easy and not without putting large effort in learning and making them into a lecture/dialog format.
@@mash0000 Salaam alaykum, thanks for the message. I’ve read that books as well as ‘hunting for the word of God’ by Sami Ameri too, and while they are amazing, I don’t find them to go into as much depth as I would have liked sadly.
@@pepsi9225 Thank you for your response. I haven't read any works of Sami Ameri yet. IA, will try to read. For my understanding, do you mind sharing what aspect of the preservation of The Quran is missing in A'zami's book?
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Just a point that may be of help, I think we can say with a decent amount of certainty that the story of Umar and Hisham (رضي الله عنه) happened after the Ahruf concession since Hisham embraced Islam on the day of fath of makkah. I'm only at the beginning of the video and so I hope this point isn't me speaking prematurely
Salam alaikum Please try to put french subtitles in your video they are so interesting but a lot of french would like to see it can you put french subtitles?
@BloggingTheology MashaAllah .... excellent content .... Would really appreciate if a similar extensive presentation can be arranged on how the Quran was preserved i.e. the ways of oral & written tradition followed by how the collection and preservation of the Quran was executed during Uthman's (RA) tenure, abrogation of the verses and how they work etc. and many more may be ... thank you
About to sit down and listen to this with an open mind. I saw Dr. Ali's presentation which was a valiant effort, but simplistic and with just as many issues as every other attempt at this. And yes, I know this topic extremely well. I maintain that the Prophet did not teach nor recite the Qur'an in multiple ways, but just one. It wasn't revealed in 7 ahruf, the Hadith is preposterous and rejected for numerous reasons. It was invented as a justification for the proliferation of qira'at which is a current and early historical fact that was the result of early Muslim negligence. But hey ... maybe I will be convinced otherwise here ...
'I know this topic extremely well' arrogant claim, "It was invented as a justification for the proliferation of qira'at which is a current and early historical fact that was the result of early Muslim negligence" and an ignorant one. One who has any concern about answering for their words shouldn't be so loose with them.
@@faraz2498 And if someone actually knows the topic very well and says so, is that an "arrogant claim"? No, I'm neither being arrogant nor ignorant ... But your presumptuousness is speaking at me "from in high", is certainly a sign of arrogance. So save me your contrived wisdom and heed it yourself.
@@Zak-gl4ig Salaam. No it isn't, but I was happy to see him cone to similar conclusions. I too came to the (surprising for me at the time) conclusion that Hafs is the closest (though not entirely correct) of the qira'at to the Prophet's, but in a way that's very different from Dr Shehzad which I don't follow ... what makes him think the qira'a 'aama is that of Hafs? I have my own post and threads on Twitter on the issue. A follower sent them to Dr Shehzad who then forwarded his contact to me so we could speak, but I never got back to him. I wanted to be completely familiar with his views first, to read his book or watch all of his series first. But I never got round to that either. Maybe I will reach out to him anyway.
@@QuranicIslam Apologies for my assumptions. However flippantly suggesting the hadith is preposterous and the early community, ie. the Sahabah and Tabi'een were negligent without providing evidence for either? These are enormous and serious claims, which even if you have a basis for are hardly the stuff of UA-cam comments. Write a book if you feel yourself qualified and face others at a scholarly level. But twitter and UA-cam? Seriously?
Probably the most advanced book (1275 pages) written so far on the subject, a PhD dissertation by Dr Shehzad Saleem titled "History of the Qur’ān: A Critical Study". Brother Paul if possible please get this guy on your show to evaluate his position on the subject. Jazakaum Allahu khayr for your service, it is a great lecture indeed!!!
This was a great talk and enormously useful, thanks. A small request I'd make to all muslim scholars/presenters, please drink from a cup not a bottle ;-)
🔴 *Pious Copyists* 🔴 *-David A. deSilva. **_An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation._** InterVarsity Press, pp: 402-403:* The Gospels, like all ancient books, were reproduced manually. For every church that wanted to have access to the Gospel of Luke, there was a copyist at work (whether a skilled believer or a professional copyist) reproducing a manuscript word by word. Copyists were not afraid to “improve” the text if they encountered a problem, whether a grammatical mistake, a stylistic infelicity or a concept or reference requiring a brief explanation. We often find, not surprisingly, scribal attempts at harmonization-assimilating one Evangelist’s version of a saying to the version familiar to the scribe. This is nowhere more obvious than in the attempts by many scribes to bring Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer in line with Matthew’s version, the form the prayer was known and said in the churches (also preserved in the Didache, a late-first-century or early-second-century church manual). Resistance to difference and internal contradiction runs deep. A copyist familiar with the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures, might also tend to “correct” quotations of Scripture as he copied a Gospel to make the quotation conform to the Old Testament more closely or attempt to make better sense out of the text.
Dr. Saleem’s thesis that the reading of Hafs is the only correct and original reading is rejected by pretty much all academics and traditional scholars. It’s not taken seriously by any scholars
@@tulaib4393 I don't care how many reject it, I care for the basis of their rejection. He brings a wealth of knowledge. He researched the topic for some 20 years now. Let's not dismiss a person's work simply because it challenges a long held view. We should be rational.
@@Zak-gl4ig I have Saleem’s book, it is an impressive collection of narrations and a good resource to have. But his argument and conclusion are extremely weak and easy to dismantle. The problem with his thesis is that he starts off by presupposing Ghamidi’s claim that Hafs is the original reading, which is completely irrational and ahistorical based on the historical evidence we have. There is no manuscript or historical evidence anywhere that the Hafs reading was adopted by any community prior to the Ottoman Empire. Saleem’s supports his argument by redefining the term qirā’ah ʿāmmah, in order to fit his argument, which he does so incorrectly. There are counter examples of readings being referred to as qirā’ah ʿāmmah that do not fall under the Hafs reading.
@@Zak-gl4ig Moreover, it doesn’t matter how long someone has researched a topic on their own; if all Muslim and non-Muslim academics in unison reject your conclusions outright and point out the specific flaws, it means you’re doing something entirely wrong. The very academics Saleem cites very often in his book vehemently oppose his conclusions.
@@tulaib4393 So, you think that the mass reading in vogue today was enforced by the Ottoman's? Where is the evidence for it? Such uniformity is not easily achieved. So, if the mass reading was other than Hafs, which is it?
For those who understand Urdu there is an excellent series of discussions on the same subject by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi sahib titled ‘Qira’at ka Ikhtilaf’ on his UA-cam channel.
The fact of the matter is the Hadith of the Seven Ahruf is a pure fabrication invented to explain away the numerous reading variations that Muslim encountered in the second century of Islam. This Hadith is the single most important factor the has distorted the Qur’an. Had it not been for this Hadith, we would had a single Qur’an that was revealed to the Prophet SAW. Any attempt at explaining this enigmatic Hadith is simply a waste of time. When they say, O Hisham read. What did he exactly read? Why was the narrator so cryptic? Why didn’t he tell what each of them recited to put our finger on the type of differences? It is all fabrication.
Quran compilations and the Caliphs - part2 As I indicated in part1 the history of the compilation and collection of the Quran is anything but simple. Naively most think it is fairly straight froward, just as the standard narrative states. But the standard narrative is WRONG! And who has shown this? *Works of our own scholars of the past have shown that the standard narrative is wanting. As the topic has been debated and forms an integral part of our history we should familiarize ourselves with it. This debate was copious and well-recorded but as it was conducted in turgid Fus-ha Arabic, few venture to go into it. But there are exceptions, and one such exception is a believing Muslim who has spent nearly two decades on this topic. He is Dr. Shahzad Saleem, a Hanafi Sunni Muslim from Pakistan. He has written a comprehensive book on the topic and produced several videos to educate us about this important topic. It started as a graduate project in which he received his PhD* . *The book is. Having read it I have to say I largely agree with it though there are some points I like to beg to differ on* : *History of the Quran: A Critical Study* www.shehzadsaleem.com/history-of-quran-critical-study/ ... and here is one of a number of videos on the topic. I do not agree with everything he says but he has much to tell since the majority of the Muslims and blissfully unaware of this! *Critical issues in the history of the quran - Dr Shehzad Saleem* ua-cam.com/video/CebMiCTxlmE/v-deo.html *Collection of The Qur'an by Shahzad Saleem (PhD thesis)* archive.org/details/collection-of-the-quran *Dr. Saleem affirms many of the misgivings some of us have about the standard narrative of the collection of the Quran and the way its qara'aat came about*! Among one of the works of classical studies on the Quran is by Abdullah Ibn Abi Dawood as-Sijistani, the son of Abu Dawood, the author of Sunan Abi Dawood , Muwatta etc. *Kitab-ul-Masahif by Abu Bakr Abdullah Ibn Abi Dawood as-Sijistani* www.amazon.co.uk/Kitab-al-Masahif-Allah-Sulayman-Sijistani/dp/9992123176 or Free download the Arabic text: *Kitab Al Masahif by Abu Bakr Abdullah Ibn Abu Dawud With Introduction Of Arthur Jeffrey* ( Arabic Text) archive.org/details/kitab-al-masahif-ibn-abu-dawud-with-introcuction-of-arthur-jeffrey-arabic-text/page/n3/mode/2up [*Although this re-typed work may have been produced by those hostile to us, it seems the text is as found in established alternatives*] Alternative (facsimile form): *Kitab Al Masahif by Abu Bakr Abdullah Ibn Abi Dawood as-Sijistan* ebooks.rahnuma.org/religion/Quran/Abu.Daud.Asjastani_Kitab-al-msahaf.pdf *Islam Stackexchange* also is useful to discuss important topics: Is this variant in Quran 61:6 (By Ubayy Bin Kab) authentically proven? islam.stackexchange.com/questions/68644/is-this-variant-in-quran-616-by-ubayy-bin-kab-authentically-proven *It is incumbent on us Muslims living in the West to get to know all this as many Islamophobes use information like this, produced by our own scholars of the past, against us* !
Blogging Theology, Excellent Topic. Thank you for this gift. Wondering if you could arrange a sequel to this on the topic of "The History of the Quranic Text" based on the authoritative book with the same title by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami? That would help lot of people.
To the rest, I highly recommend this authoritative book "The History of the Quranic Text" by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami.
Great idea!
We in Malaysia read according to Hafs 'an 'Asim. Once in a while some imam when they want to recite different Qira'at they will announce it first before solat.
This is better. I wish people read more qiraat in salah. It's really fun to hear but yeah, sometimes people get a little touchy with it since they're not always familiar with what it is.
Salam I love getting information from your blog Islam has so much information as a western Muslim woman I am trying to learn as much as I can. Thank you so much for spending all the time for teaching us the laws and ethics of Islam may Allah bless Allah of us. Thank you.
Alhamdulillah girl , learning is a process and I in my 40 still learning and I study Islam eversense I was a kid.
If you can, read the authoritative book "The History of the Quranic Tex" by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami.
Alhamdulillah for Allah for guide me to Islam
Masha’Allah - yesterday a pearl and today another one. Baraka Allahu fik Akhi 💛 Salam from Germany 🇩🇪
Topics like this show the benefit of having Bassam Zawadi as an interviewer with Blogging Theology. A topic like this is something he would be better able to engage with and elucidate points in a deeper way. Wise choice by Paul.
Thanks so much for this interesting topic.
The aspects of the Qur’an in Seven ahruf can be viewed as one of the miraculous aspects that made the Qur’an the only dynamic book in the world until today, as what is known in human literature is that the author formulates his book so that his ideas carry one meaning, and thus they are static books. As for the Qur’an It was memorized in this dynamic way from the time of the Prophet, from which the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him told his companions that the Qur’an bears facets (He meant 7 Ahruf).
What is meant by a dynamic book is that it copes with the changes of life. For example, you may find a word in the singular form in one reading and it is replaced by another word in the plural form in another reading, and both of them are correct and complete each other.
As Muslims, we believe that all these Ahruf were revealed by God to the Prophet through Gabriel, and this is what the Prophet himself announced, and we believe in him because we believe that he brought other matters greater than that, and this is the important thing about this topic, even his enemies of Quraish didn't even dare to speak or doubt about this unusual book, and Allah SWT through the Qur'an challenged them to give even small chapter like it.
____________
On the other hand, the real problem is the Bible. Why?
Because the early or the recent Christians (didn't) do not have the slightest idea about its origin, and they have no proof that Moses or Jesus had announced it as it is now, they don't even have a connected chain of narrators until now about their sacred book.
Really, I advice the honest Christians to think rationality not emotionally of what they believe, because the truth comes by thinking and asking rational questions, as the truth not necessarily inherited from the ancestors.
May Allah guide them to the straight path.
Thanks
Good comment. But God doesn't pray to anybody, the word "Salâh" in صلى الله عليه وسلم means blessing
4 hours tabarakAllah about a very interesting Quranic subject! Im going to injoy and benefit from this in shaa Allah!
Jazakum Allahu Khayran may Allah reward the two of you
BEST CHANNEL ON UA-cam
Wa'alaikum assalam wa rahmatu'LLAHI wa barakatuh
Thank you brother Paul. You are an Islamic treasure. May Allah elevate you in rank!
Great and thorough video. It's great to see Mr. Bassam again. I have learned a lot about this topic but learned a lot from this video.
جزاكم الله خيرا
Top tier presentation, jazakumullah khayran
Excellent presentation. Highly technical but a good elucidation for those who are familiar with the topic. Baaraka Allahu Feekum
Ooohhh another more than 2 hours video, love it!!😍😍
This is just incredible. So comprehensive. Masha Allah.
May Allah immensely reward the people who contributed to Blogging Theology for making such deep knowledge accesible. I realize these subjects aren't easy and not without putting large effort in learning and making them into a lecture/dialog format.
Wow 4 hours... Gotta download this
Bro Paul and the team keep bombarding us with 4hrs videos..... Great content anyways....
Very important topic
Thanks a lot,. mashallah
High tech lecture to be gone through will see at weekend
Well done brother, this video was well-needed. It’s very hard to find information regarding the canonical readings within the English language 👍.
If you can, read the authoritative book "The History of the Quranic Tex" by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami.
@@mash0000 Salaam alaykum, thanks for the message. I’ve read that books as well as ‘hunting for the word of God’ by Sami Ameri too, and while they are amazing, I don’t find them to go into as much depth as I would have liked sadly.
@@pepsi9225 Thank you for your response. I haven't read any works of Sami Ameri yet. IA, will try to read.
For my understanding, do you mind sharing what aspect of the preservation of The Quran is missing in A'zami's book?
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
Just a point that may be of help, I think we can say with a decent amount of certainty that the story of Umar and Hisham (رضي الله عنه) happened after the Ahruf concession since Hisham embraced Islam on the day of fath of makkah. I'm only at the beginning of the video and so I hope this point isn't me speaking prematurely
Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
Alhamdulillah 😇
Salam alaikum Please try to put french subtitles in your video they are so interesting but a lot of french would like to see it can you put french subtitles?
So when you recite the Quran, [first] seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the expelled [from His mercy].
Quran 16:98 (Surah an-Nahl)
@BloggingTheology MashaAllah .... excellent content .... Would really appreciate if a similar extensive presentation can be arranged on how the Quran was preserved i.e. the ways of oral & written tradition followed by how the collection and preservation of the Quran was executed during Uthman's (RA) tenure, abrogation of the verses and how they work etc. and many more may be ... thank you
If you can, read the authoritative book "The History of the Quranic Text" by Prof. Mustafa Al-Azami.
@@mash0000 brilliant!! jazakallah khair bruv ....
About to sit down and listen to this with an open mind. I saw Dr. Ali's presentation which was a valiant effort, but simplistic and with just as many issues as every other attempt at this. And yes, I know this topic extremely well. I maintain that the Prophet did not teach nor recite the Qur'an in multiple ways, but just one. It wasn't revealed in 7 ahruf, the Hadith is preposterous and rejected for numerous reasons. It was invented as a justification for the proliferation of qira'at which is a current and early historical fact that was the result of early Muslim negligence. But hey ... maybe I will be convinced otherwise here ...
'I know this topic extremely well' arrogant claim, "It was invented as a justification for the proliferation of qira'at which is a current and early historical fact that was the result of early Muslim negligence" and an ignorant one. One who has any concern about answering for their words shouldn't be so loose with them.
@@faraz2498
And if someone actually knows the topic very well and says so, is that an "arrogant claim"? No, I'm neither being arrogant nor ignorant ... But your presumptuousness is speaking at me "from in high", is certainly a sign of arrogance. So save me your contrived wisdom and heed it yourself.
You're view seems similar to that of Dr Shezhad Saleem. Is it based on his work by any chance?
@@Zak-gl4ig
Salaam. No it isn't, but I was happy to see him cone to similar conclusions. I too came to the (surprising for me at the time) conclusion that Hafs is the closest (though not entirely correct) of the qira'at to the Prophet's, but in a way that's very different from Dr Shehzad which I don't follow ... what makes him think the qira'a 'aama is that of Hafs? I have my own post and threads on Twitter on the issue. A follower sent them to Dr Shehzad who then forwarded his contact to me so we could speak, but I never got back to him. I wanted to be completely familiar with his views first, to read his book or watch all of his series first. But I never got round to that either. Maybe I will reach out to him anyway.
@@QuranicIslam Apologies for my assumptions. However flippantly suggesting the hadith is preposterous and the early community, ie. the Sahabah and Tabi'een were negligent without providing evidence for either? These are enormous and serious claims, which even if you have a basis for are hardly the stuff of UA-cam comments. Write a book if you feel yourself qualified and face others at a scholarly level. But twitter and UA-cam? Seriously?
Wish you more views
someone share this with Hattun please, if you know what I mean.
Probably the most advanced book (1275 pages) written so far on the subject, a PhD dissertation by Dr Shehzad Saleem titled "History of the Qur’ān: A Critical Study". Brother Paul if possible please get this guy on your show to evaluate his position on the subject. Jazakaum Allahu khayr for your service, it is a great lecture indeed!!!
At minutes 40 now. Take 5 😅😁
45:00
❤️❤️❤️❤️🤲🤲🤲🤲
This was a great talk and enormously useful, thanks. A small request I'd make to all muslim scholars/presenters, please drink from a cup not a bottle ;-)
🔴 *Pious Copyists* 🔴
*-David A. deSilva. **_An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation._** InterVarsity Press, pp: 402-403:*
The Gospels, like all ancient books, were reproduced manually. For every church that wanted to have access to the Gospel of Luke, there was a copyist at work (whether a skilled believer or a professional copyist) reproducing a manuscript word by word. Copyists were not afraid to “improve” the text if they encountered a problem, whether a grammatical mistake, a stylistic infelicity or a concept or reference requiring a brief explanation. We often find, not surprisingly, scribal attempts at harmonization-assimilating one Evangelist’s version of a saying to the version familiar to the scribe. This is nowhere more obvious than in the attempts by many scribes to bring Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer in line with Matthew’s version, the form the prayer was known and said in the churches (also preserved in the Didache, a late-first-century or early-second-century church manual). Resistance to difference and internal contradiction runs deep. A copyist familiar with the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures, might also tend to “correct” quotations of Scripture as he copied a Gospel to make the quotation conform to the Old Testament more closely or attempt to make better sense out of the text.
That thumb is a sick bonkers joke right in the middle of this s.... ☺️😄😊 Your Killing me hysterical.
Oh I love my sweet ISLAM ..
It would be awesome if you could invite Dr Shezhad Saleem who researched this topic at great lengths and provides some really valuable insight.
Dr. Saleem’s thesis that the reading of Hafs is the only correct and original reading is rejected by pretty much all academics and traditional scholars. It’s not taken seriously by any scholars
@@tulaib4393 I don't care how many reject it, I care for the basis of their rejection. He brings a wealth of knowledge. He researched the topic for some 20 years now. Let's not dismiss a person's work simply because it challenges a long held view. We should be rational.
@@Zak-gl4ig I have Saleem’s book, it is an impressive collection of narrations and a good resource to have. But his argument and conclusion are extremely weak and easy to dismantle. The problem with his thesis is that he starts off by presupposing Ghamidi’s claim that Hafs is the original reading, which is completely irrational and ahistorical based on the historical evidence we have. There is no manuscript or historical evidence anywhere that the Hafs reading was adopted by any community prior to the Ottoman Empire. Saleem’s supports his argument by redefining the term qirā’ah ʿāmmah, in order to fit his argument, which he does so incorrectly. There are counter examples of readings being referred to as qirā’ah ʿāmmah that do not fall under the Hafs reading.
@@Zak-gl4ig Moreover, it doesn’t matter how long someone has researched a topic on their own; if all Muslim and non-Muslim academics in unison reject your conclusions outright and point out the specific flaws, it means you’re doing something entirely wrong. The very academics Saleem cites very often in his book vehemently oppose his conclusions.
@@tulaib4393 So, you think that the mass reading in vogue today was enforced by the Ottoman's? Where is the evidence for it? Such uniformity is not easily achieved. So, if the mass reading was other than Hafs, which is it?
WHAT DO YOU ISLAM OR KRISTEN ???
Even pronouces "Allah" very different to any tounge, but not as excuses. 🤐
For those who understand Urdu there is an excellent series of discussions on the same subject by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi sahib titled ‘Qira’at ka Ikhtilaf’ on his UA-cam channel.
Host was poking unnecessarily and his interference did not at all help. The guest spoke with a supersonic speed.
Putting the 30+ Quran narrative to rest in the coffin.
The fact of the matter is the Hadith of the Seven Ahruf is a pure fabrication invented to explain away the numerous reading variations that Muslim encountered in the second century of Islam. This Hadith is the single most important factor the has distorted the Qur’an. Had it not been for this Hadith, we would had a single Qur’an that was revealed to the Prophet SAW. Any attempt at explaining this enigmatic Hadith is simply a waste of time. When they say, O Hisham read. What did he exactly read? Why was the narrator so cryptic? Why didn’t he tell what each of them recited to put our finger on the type of differences? It is all fabrication.
A kaffir Quranist is not better than what scholar have argued
Quran compilations and the Caliphs - part2
As I indicated in part1 the history of the compilation and collection of the Quran is anything but simple. Naively most think it is fairly straight froward, just as the standard narrative states. But the standard narrative is WRONG! And who has shown this? *Works of our own scholars of the past have shown that the standard narrative is wanting. As the topic has been debated and forms an integral part of our history we should familiarize ourselves with it. This debate was copious and well-recorded but as it was conducted in turgid Fus-ha Arabic, few venture to go into it. But there are exceptions, and one such exception is a believing Muslim who has spent nearly two decades on this topic. He is Dr. Shahzad Saleem, a Hanafi Sunni Muslim from Pakistan. He has written a comprehensive book on the topic and produced several videos to educate us about this important topic. It started as a graduate project in which he received his PhD* .
*The book is. Having read it I have to say I largely agree with it though there are some points I like to beg to differ on* :
*History of the Quran: A Critical Study*
www.shehzadsaleem.com/history-of-quran-critical-study/
... and here is one of a number of videos on the topic. I do not agree with everything he says but he has much to tell since the majority of the Muslims and blissfully unaware of this!
*Critical issues in the history of the quran - Dr Shehzad Saleem*
ua-cam.com/video/CebMiCTxlmE/v-deo.html
*Collection of The Qur'an by Shahzad Saleem (PhD thesis)*
archive.org/details/collection-of-the-quran
*Dr. Saleem affirms many of the misgivings some of us have about the standard narrative of the collection of the Quran and the way its qara'aat came about*!
Among one of the works of classical studies on the Quran is by Abdullah Ibn Abi Dawood as-Sijistani, the son of Abu Dawood, the author of Sunan Abi Dawood , Muwatta etc.
*Kitab-ul-Masahif by Abu Bakr Abdullah Ibn Abi Dawood as-Sijistani*
www.amazon.co.uk/Kitab-al-Masahif-Allah-Sulayman-Sijistani/dp/9992123176
or
Free download the Arabic text:
*Kitab Al Masahif by Abu Bakr Abdullah Ibn Abu Dawud With Introduction Of Arthur Jeffrey* ( Arabic Text)
archive.org/details/kitab-al-masahif-ibn-abu-dawud-with-introcuction-of-arthur-jeffrey-arabic-text/page/n3/mode/2up
[*Although this re-typed work may have been produced by those hostile to us, it seems the text is as found in established alternatives*]
Alternative (facsimile form):
*Kitab Al Masahif by Abu Bakr Abdullah Ibn Abi Dawood as-Sijistan*
ebooks.rahnuma.org/religion/Quran/Abu.Daud.Asjastani_Kitab-al-msahaf.pdf
*Islam Stackexchange* also is useful to discuss important topics:
Is this variant in Quran 61:6 (By Ubayy Bin Kab) authentically proven?
islam.stackexchange.com/questions/68644/is-this-variant-in-quran-616-by-ubayy-bin-kab-authentically-proven
*It is incumbent on us Muslims living in the West to get to know all this as many Islamophobes use information like this, produced by our own scholars of the past, against us* !