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AYATUL AHKAM - THE FEATURES OF AL-QURAN
HOW WAS THE WURAN PRESERVATION DONE
DURING UTHMAN RA ERA?
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman came to Uthman at the time
when the people of Sham (Syria) and the people of
Iraq were waging war to conquer Armenia and
Azherbijan. Hudhaifa was afraid of their differences in
the recitation of the Quran, so he said to Uthman, 'O
chief of the Believers! Save this nation before they
differ about the Book (Quran) as Jews and Christians
did before'. So Uthman sent a message to Hafsa
saying, 'Send us the manuscripts of the Quran so that
we may compile the Quranic materials in perfect
copies and return the manuscripts to you'. Hafsa sent
it to Uthman. 'Uthman then ordered Zaid bin Thabit,
'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair, Said bin Al-As and Abdur
Rahman bin Harith bin Hisham to rewrite the
manuscripts in perfect copies. Uthman said to the
three Quraishi men, 'In case you disagree with Zaid bin
Thabit on any point in the Quran, then write it in their
(Quraishi) tongue'. They did so, and when they had
written many copies, Uthman sent to every Muslim
province one copy of what they had copied and
ordered that all the other Quranic materials whether
written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies,
be burnt…"
>> Main objective: unity of ummah, using the book of
Allah.
THERE WERE DIFFERENCES IN FEW LETTERS IN THE UTHMAN’S
MASAHEEF. DOES THIS MEAN THAT IT WAS NOT IN ACCORDANCE
TO THE ORIGINAL MODE WHEN IT WAS REVEALED?
It is not because of the scriber error despite the
differences in few letters in the masaheef.
This is because the manuscript during the era didn’t
come with the dots (and harakah). Hence, the word
‫ تبينوا‬and ‫ تثبتوا‬have the same skeletal structure and
captured in the masaheef. The intention and attempt
at that era was designed to capture as much ahruf
as possible.
Even there were differences in the letters, doesn’t
mean the Quran was not preserved as it was
revealed. The scribers were taking the Quraishi
mode, which was the original mode during the
revelation. The other mode was concessionary and it
was also preserved.
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WHAT WAS UTHMAN’S STRATEGIES?
HOW DID HE IMPLEMENT THEM?
>> Based on the original mushaf (Abu Bakar’s), to be
reviewed by a committee of four, proficient in Arabic and
Al-Quran, with Quraishis tounges / dialects.
>>Upon reviewing, should there be disagreement between
Zaid ibn Thabit (the original scriber) and ‘Abdullah bin Az-
Zubair, Said bin Al-As, Abdur Rahman bin Harith bin Hisham
(the Quraishi men), then resorted to the Quraishi mode.
WHYcommittee
>>The ARE THE THE QURANtheBEING
rewrite REVEALEDas IN
manuscripts perPIECEMEAL?
agreed.
>> Copies were given to Muslim provinces, and other
Quranic copies were collected/surrendered and burnt
WHAT WERE THE DIFFERENCES W.R.T THE PRESERVATION
DURING ABU BAKR'S AND UTHMAN'S ERA?
>> Zaid ibn Thabit vs 3 other Quraishi men as committee as
compilers
>> Only 1 copy of the mushaf vs many (four or 5) copies
(Medina, Kuffah, Basra, Sham and/or Mecca)
>> Each copy were sent / given to the Muslim provinces with
one reciter, qari.
>> Objective during Abu Bakar era was to preserve the
Quran while during Uthman, the objective is preserve the
Quran and for the unity of bigger ummah
WHY DID UTHMAN AGREED TO EMBARK WITH THE PROJECT THAT
ENTAIL SOME OF THE AHRUF WAS NOT BEING PRESERVED?
That is not 100% true. There’s a possibility of some of the
ahruf was not being preserved because of the design and
due to more than one mashaf were written. The ahruf was
revealed to make recitation of the Quran easier during the
revelation.
During the time Uthman kicked off with the project, the
concession came down to circumstances. As the Islam
Empire grew bigger, many people converted to Islam and
Islam surpassed the Arabs through various ethnicities.
At that time, the harm of the ummah disunity had greater
importance of being prevented than the importance of
being preserved. Preservation of ahruf being concessionary
didn’t carry the same weight as the preservation of ummah
unity, especially when the unity was directly related to the
Quran. Doubting the Quran would put doubts in the Iman,
and hence the whole unity of the Ummah.
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HADITH #2 - ISLAM, FAITH, AND EXCELLENCE
1ST PART OF HADITH #2 HADITH JIBREEL
‫َع ْن ُع َم َر َرِض َي ُهللا َع ْن ُه َأْيًض ا َق اَل‬ Famously known as Hadith Jibreel. This hadith is also
‫َبْي َنَم ا َنْحُن ُجُلوٌس ِع ْنَد َرُس وِل ِهَّللا صىل هللا عليه‬
known as Umm as-Sunnah, the mother of Sunnah, the

‫ إْذ َط َلَع َع َلْي َنا َرُجٌل َش ِديُد َبَي اِض‬، ‫و سلم َذ اَت َيْو ٍم‬
essence of Sunnah among scholars. It comprises all
elements of worship, internally and externally, reflecting
‫َأ‬
‫ اَل ُيَرى َع َلْي ِه َثُر‬،‫ َش ِديُد َس َو اِد الَّش ْع ِر‬، ‫الِّثَي اِب‬ the universality of the hadith. It is likened to the famous
‫ىَل‬ ‫َل‬ ‫َأ‬ ‫ُف‬ ‫اَل‬
‫ َحَّتى َج َس إ الَّنِبِّي‬.‫ َو َيْع ِر ُه ِم َّنا َحٌد‬،‫الَّس َف ِر‬
verse when the Friday khutbah is being read, An-Nahl

‫ َف َأْس َنَد ُرْك َبَت ْي ِه إىَل‬. ‫صىل هللا عليه و سلم‬

16:90,
‫ۡأ‬
‫ِإَّن ٱلَّلَه َي ُم ُر ِبٱۡلَع ۡد ِل َو ٱِإۡلۡحَٰس ِن َو ِإيَتٓإِي ِذي ٱۡلُق ۡرَبٰى َو َيۡن َه ٰى َع ِن‬
‫ َوَو َض َع َكَّف ْي ِه َع ىَل َف ِخ َذ ْيِه‬، ‫ُرْك َبَت ْي ِه‬ ‫ٱۡلَف ۡحَش ٓاِء َو ٱۡلُم نَكِر َو ٱۡلَبۡغ ِۚي َيِع ُظ ُكۡم َلَع َّلُكۡم َتَذ َّك ُروَن‬

‫ َيا ُم َحَّم ُد َأْخ ِبْر ِني َع ْن اِإْلْس اَل ِم‬: ‫َو َق اَل‬
Allah enjoins justice, kindness, and giving relatives [their
dues], and He forbids shameful acts, evil deeds and

oppression. He exhorts you, so that you may take heed.
Umar ibn al-Khattab reported: We were sitting with the
Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, The objective of the hadith is a reflection of well-
one day when a man appeared with very white clothes equipped to the deen: “‫َأَتاُكْم ُيَع ِّلُم ُكْم ِديَنُكم‬, he came to
and very black hair. There were no signs of travel on teach you your religion”.
him and we did not recognize him. He sat down in front

، ‫“ َف َأْس َنَد ُر ْك َب َت ْي ِه إ ىَل ُر ْك َب َت ْي ِه‬

of the Prophet and rested his knees by his knees and
placed his hands on his thighs. The man said, “O
Muhammad, tell me about Islam.” DU’A
“ ‫ْي ِه‬SEEKING ‫َكَّف ْي ِه َع ىَل‬
‫ َف ِخ َذ‬REFUGE ‫َو َو َض‬
FROM‫ َع‬SHIRK
There's am interpretation that
the first pronoun ‫ ـِه‬was
referring to Jibril and the following pronoun ‫ ـِه‬was referring
UMAR'S DESCRIPTION OF 'THE MAN' to Rasulullah SAW.
First part of hadith, spoke about the hadith being
There’s also another interpretation that both pronouns were
narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab RA, though there are
referring to Jibril alone.
few other narrations which are similar.

Umar began with highlighting the man, who was THE MATTER OF SEEKING KNOWLEDGE
unknown to the community and was significantly
In the hadith, Jibril showed the etiquette of a student in
outstanding with his white crisp shirt, with deep black
terms of his effort to travel to seek knowledge, dressed
hair.Umar RA was not describing a fashion statement,
And the rest of the hadith further explains the deeds well and also in the questions he asked. He reflected the
he was describing a strange phenomenon. In other
are by intentions. qualities as a teacher in terms of the content of his
words, the stranger did not look like a traveller for he questions.
was all-cleaned up and smartly dressed, but he was
STOP & PONDER..
not one of the companions, nor the community knew Jibreel came all the way from Heaven in his best way to
him. A traveller would be recognized instantly for their seek knowledge, on the other hand, today, unfortunately,
Sincerity
messiness, and ifishepart
was of theand
clean pillars of worship.
well-presented, he many of us seek knowledge as an opportunity to make
Pillars
might have of worship
been (ikhlas which
some guessed, & conformity in the
he was neither. profit. Due to the nature and cycle of the business
sunnah) is reflected in the testimony of faith orientation, knowledge shared and received mostly on
‫رسول هللا‬
Certain praiseworthy ‫محمد‬do‫هللا‬
qualities ‫إله إال‬to‫ال‬certain
reflect growing one’s wealth and finance, social media growth
people i.e. and so forth, which end up being taught on the wrong

>> Natural qualities e.g. dark black hair (though not platform.
belittling white hair)
>> Acquired qualities e.g. very white clothes, clean, Advanced knowledge is taught prior to the primary and
smart & fresh looking. basic knowledge, which in returns the idea of sanctity of
knowledge as what being told by the Quran is either
forgotten or misinterpreted, creating knowledge junkies.
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THE TA'IYYAH OF ABU ISHAQ AL ILBEEREE
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‫ ولْي َس ِبأنْن َط ِع ْم َت‬... ‫َف قوُت ألهاَك أُّروِه أْر واُح المعاني‬ We are more of our soul than our body. It is
‫وال َش ِرْبتا‬ our soul that needs to be fed with knowledge
For the soul’s nourishment is the realm of meanings instead of food and drink that we consume for
(knowledge) our body. In reality, when one visits each other,
*** it is the soul that is meeting each other
And it is not fed by food nor drink because there will be time when we visit
someone’s body with no soul (when someone
‫ فإن أعطاكه هللا اْنَت َف ْع تا‬... ‫َف واِظ ْب ُه َو ُخذ بلِج ِّد فيه‬ passed on), and that is not meeting.

So persist in it and take it seriously Al-Busti’s poem:

*** O servant of body,
For if Allah grants it to you [knowledge], you will How many layers of sadness are you going to
benefit bring upon yourself in serving your body?
Are you seeking profit in a deal that is filled
‫ إنك قد عِلمتا‬: ‫ وقال الناس‬... ‫فإن أعطيَت فيه َط ِو يَل باٍع‬ with loss?
‫ُأ‬
Alternate word: ‫ْو ِتْي َت ِف ْي ه‬ Focus on your soul, and complete it with
virtues.
And if you have received a vast amount of it Build it up, fix it up.
*** You re a an not because of your body, but
And the people say you have indeed learned your soul.

Pursuit in seeking knowledge diligently for

‫ عِلْم ت ؛ فهل عِم ْلتا‬: ‫ بَت ْو بيِح‬... ‫فال تأمْن ُس َؤ ال هللا عنه‬ Allah chooses for you to be a bearer of
knowledge that you will benefit from it,
Then do not feel safe from Allah asking you then.Not all knowledge that necessarily come
about it to for everything is from Allah. When Allah
*** gives you (the knowledge), He SWT gives, and
Rebukingly, ”You have learned, but have you sometimes, He gives you hasn’t given (the
acted?” benefit of getting knowledge).

‫ لقد َرأْس تاا‬: ‫ وليس بأن ُيقال‬... ‫َف رأُُس العلم تقوى هللا حقا‬ Height of knowledge is to fear Allah, not what
For the peak of Knowledge is true fear of Allah people labelled you (as a knowledgeable and
*** honourable person)
And not that it be said: “You’ve certainly gained
standing”
STOP & PONDER..
It is an ocean without coast, decider between
Everyone should know their place,
success, failure, salutation, doom and gloom.
everything should know its space.
It is life & death,
It is the gift of the Messenger SAW that he left with
Knowlege is something sought
us, his belongings, the most precious,
from cradle to grave,
that we can get our hands on ....