How to Collect the Holy Qur’an

(A descriptive and analytical study)

Abstract

The study idea revolves around the stages of collecting the Noble Qur’an, an analytical descriptive study, and I mention the guarding and maintenance of It by The Lord of the worlds when He says:” Indeed it is We who sent down The Message and indeed We will be its guardian.” (Al hijr:9)

The Noble Qur’an was memorized frequently and written in the lines and during the caliphate of Abo Bakr  seddiq ,the verses and surahs of the Qur’an which were written separately before, collected in one book format called Mus’haf (the manuscripts of the Quran). And during the reign of Uthman, the Qur’an was written and copied and based on this work, the scholars released a permission on collecting The Noble Qur’an and described the quality of preserving It by Muslims .

This study is divided into three topics:

The first topic indicates how the Noble Qur’an was revealed during the era of the Messenger of God and the preserving It by Muslims.

The second topic mentions the quality of the writing of The Holy Qur’an and its collecting and it is divided into two parts: first, its collecting means memorizing it ; second, its collecting means its writing .The study proves that the holy prophet had scribes who wrote whatever verses of Qur’an revealed to him and he guided the companions (May God be pleased of them) on how to write the verses and the surahs of Qur’an and put them in their correct positions and it proves that the prophet referred to and reviewed  what was written by his companion (May God be pleased of them), read and listened to them.

In topic three I indicate the preserving and collecting the Nobel Qur’an during the time of great (Rashidun) caliphs and the goals of collecting the Holy Qur’an in the time of Abo Bakr and his measures and reasons of choosing Zayd ibn Thabit for the aim. And I also mention the collecting of the Qur’an and its reasons during the time of Uthman ibn Affan and I indicate the difference between the collecting in the time of Abo Bakr and the time of Uthman (May God be pleased of both of them). In the topic, I mention the date of writing of Uthmani Mus’haf and how it disseminated across the world and preserving the holy Quran between two covering cases as well.