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SOURCES
OF
ISLAMIC
KNOWLEDGE
REVIEW
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the chapter, students should be
able to do the following:
To explain the Transmission of the Quranic
Revelation
MEMORIZATION
AND
ORAL TRANSMISSION
Mas'ud and said: I shall ever love that man for I heard the Prophet
saying: Take (learn) the Qur'an from four: 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud,
Salim, Muiadh and Ubay bin Ka'b'. [Bukhari, VI, No. 521.]
in the time of the Prophet but had not been brought together in one
single place, and that therefore these written records or documents
had not been arranged in order.' [Itqan, I, p. 41]
However, the arrangement of the suras, was fixed by the Prophet
himself and safeguarded through oral transmission
There is no doubt that the Qur'an was not only transmitted orally by
many Muslims who had learned parts or the whole of it, but that it was
also written down during the lifetime of the Prophet.
ink pot and the scapula bone (or the scapula bone and the ink pot).'
Then he said: 'Write: Not equal are those believers ... [Bukhari, VI,
No. 512; also VI, No. 116-18.]
REFERENCES
Afzalur
http://web.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/
books/ulum_al_quran/index.htm