g0dLAKE wrote:Wrong, the Quran was memorized during the time of Mihammed and was also written during that time. He ordered his faithfull followers to write it down every time something new was revealed. After Muhammed's death in six months, Abu Bakr gathered all those written things and put them in a box to be reserved. During the ruling period of Uthman it was gathered into one book and dialect of mecca was used. The Quran had seven Dialects. They didn't simply just gather the book, they went around asking people who were known to be faithfull also to double check, then he oredered all the other written versions destroyed.
Wrong!
Muhammad died in
632 and after the battle of al-Yamamah in
633, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, later to become the second caliph, suggested to Abu Bakr, the first caliph, that because of the grievous loss of life in that battle, there was a very real danger of losing the Quran.
This concept comes from the hadith:
Bukhari: vol. 6, hadith 509, p. 477; book 61
Narrated Zaid-bin-Thabit:
Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me when the people of Yama-ma had been killed (i.e. a number of the prophets companions who fought against Musailama). (I went to him) and found Umar bin Al-Khattab sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said to me, "Umar has come to me and said: `Casualties were heavy among the Qurra of the Qur'an (ie those who knew the Qur'an by heart) on the day of the battle of Yama-ma, and I am afraid that more heavy casualties may take place among the Qurra on other battle fields, whereby a large part of the Qur'an may be lost. Therefore I suggest that you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur'an be collected'. I said to Umar, `How can you do something Allah's Apostle did not do?' Umar said, `By Allah, that is a good project'. Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till Allah opened my chest (persuaded me) for it and I began to realise the good idea which Umar had realised.
This hadith shows that Muhammad had never made a final collection of the Qur'an, for when Abu Bakr was asked to collect the Qur'an into one volume he said, "How can you do something Allah's Apostle did not do?"
Later, during the time of 'Uthman, the third caliph, a final, authorized text was prepared and completed in
651
651-632=19 years after the death of Muhammad was the final, authorized complete text prepared and completed! Uthman then burnt the rest.