A Doubt Regarding the Mass Transmission of the Qur'an
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Your Eminence! It is mentioned in Sahih Muslim: [The Qur'an was collected in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) by forty people],How do we respond to the claim of the Orientalists: Is the Qur'an not mass-transmitted by this specific number?
They collected it, but those in their time approved of it. And I have seen a book collected for a specific person, even though people knew him; they did not bring anything that people would reject. Everyone approved of what was collected.
The questioner: Do they use this specific number as evidence?The Shaykh: No, it does not mean that when they collected it, they were the only ones who knew it. They were not the only ones who knew it, but they collected it, just as if you appointed a person to write for me, for example: *Zad al-Mustaqni'* or if you appointed four people, does that mean the others did not know about it?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: Absolutely not. Was Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) one of the forty who collected it?The questioner: He was not among the forty.
The Shaykh: And do you think that anything mentioned by these forty was hidden from him?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: He knew it, clear?The questioner: Yes, clear.
The Shaykh: Praise be to Allah.
They collected it, but those in their time approved of it. And I have seen a book collected for a specific person, even though people knew him; they did not bring anything that people would reject. Everyone approved of what was collected.
The questioner: Do they use this specific number as evidence?The Shaykh: No, it does not mean that when they collected it, they were the only ones who knew it. They were not the only ones who knew it, but they collected it, just as if you appointed a person to write for me, for example: *Zad al-Mustaqni'* or if you appointed four people, does that mean the others did not know about it?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: Absolutely not. Was Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) one of the forty who collected it?The questioner: He was not among the forty.
The Shaykh: And do you think that anything mentioned by these forty was hidden from him?The questioner: No.
The Shaykh: He knew it, clear?The questioner: Yes, clear.
The Shaykh: Praise be to Allah.