Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Western Scholarship and the Early History of the Qur’ān: A Short History of Qur’anic Studies in the West
- 2 Muslim Response to the Criticisms of the Textual History of the Qur’an
- 3 Shiʿi Approach to the History of the Collection of the Qur’ān
- 4 Introduction to isnād-cum-matn Methodology
- 5 Traditions Attributed to Muḥammad Al-Bāqir
- 6 Traditions Attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
- 7 Traditions Attributed to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
- 8 Traditions Attributed to Ibn Sīrīn
- Miscellaneous
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Western Scholarship and the Early History of the Qur’ān: A Short History of Qur’anic Studies in the West
- 2 Muslim Response to the Criticisms of the Textual History of the Qur’an
- 3 Shiʿi Approach to the History of the Collection of the Qur’ān
- 4 Introduction to isnād-cum-matn Methodology
- 5 Traditions Attributed to Muḥammad Al-Bāqir
- 6 Traditions Attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
- 7 Traditions Attributed to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
- 8 Traditions Attributed to Ibn Sīrīn
- Miscellaneous
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
Summary
1. Ābān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh's Version:
In a 23 page long tradition that gives a detailed account of the political events and the succession crisis just after the demise of the Prophet, Salmān al-Fārisī mentions the significance of the collection of the Qur’an by ʿAlī:
Wa-ʿan Ābān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh ʿan Sulaym b. Qays qāla samiʿtu Salmān al-Fārisī qāla: Lammā an qubiḍa al-Nabī (ṣ) … fa-lammā ra’ā ghadrahum wa-qillata wafā’ihim lahu lazima baytahu wa-aqbala ʿalā al-Qur’ān yu’allifuhu wa-yajmaʿuhu falā yakhruj min baytihi ḥattā jamaʿahu wa-kāna fī al-Ṣuḥufi wa-al-shīẓāẓi wa-al-asyār wa-al-riqāʿ falammā jamaʿahu kullahu wa-katabahu ʿalā tanzīlihi wa-al-nāsikh minhu wa-al-mansūkh baʿātha ilayhi Abū Bakr an akhruj fabāyiʿ fabaʿatha ilayhi ʿAlī (ʿa) innī lamashghūlun wa-qad ālaytu ʿālā nafsī yamīnan an lā artadī ridā’an illā li al-ṣalāt ḥattā u’allifa al-Qur’ān wa ajmaʿahu [fa sakatū ʿanhu ayyāman] fa-jamaʿahu fī thawbin wāhidin wa-khatama thumma kharaja ilā al-nās wa-hum mujtamiʿūn maʿa Abī Bakr fi masjidi Rasūl Allāh (ṣ) fanādā ʿAlī (ʿa) bi aʿlā ṣawtihi ya ayyuhā al-nās! Innī lam azal mundhu qubiḍa Rasūl Allāh (ṣ) mashghūlan bi qhuslihi thumma bi al-Qur’āni ḥattā jamaʿtuhu kullahu fī hadhā al-thawbī al-wāḥid fa-lam yunzili Allāh ʿalā Rasūl Allāh (ṣ) āyatan illā wa-qad jamaʿtuhā wa-laysat minhu āyatun illā wa-qad aqra’anīhā Rasūl Allāh (ṣ) wa-ʿallamanī taʿwīlahā thumma qāla lahum ʿAlī (ʿa) li-allā taqūlū yawma al-qiyāmati innī lam adʿukum ilā nuṣratī wa-lam udhakkirkum ḥaqqī wa-lam adʿukum illā Kitāb Allāh min fātiḥatihi ilā khātimatihi fa-qāla ʿUmar mā aghnānā min al-Qur’āni ʿammā tadʿūnā ilayhi thumma dakhala ʿAlī (ʿa) ilā baytihi.
Translation:
And Ābān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh from Sulaym b. Qays who said: I heard from Salmān al-Fārisī, who said: When the Messenger died… he [ʿAlī] saw people's treachery and lack of loyalty to him, [thus] he remained in his house and devoted himself to the compilation and the collection of the Qur’ān. He did not come out of his house until he had collected what was [written] on loose papers, sharpened wood, leaves or flattened hinged bone and pieces of paper until he collected all of it and wrote it down as it was revealed and [whatever was] abrogated from it and the abrogating [verses].
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- In Search of Ali Ibn Abi Talib's CodexHistory and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qur'an, pp. 177 - 182Publisher: Gerlach BooksPrint publication year: 2018
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