Canonization of Islamic scripture#Uthmanic canonization

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The Quran was canonized only after Muhammad's death in 632 CE. According to Islamic tradition the third caliph, Uthman ibn Affan (r. 23/644–35 AH/655 CE) established the canonical Qur'an, reportedly starting the process in 644 CE,{{cite web |last1=Shoemaker |first1=Thomas |title=The Development of the Canonical Qur'an |url=http://www.mesacc.edu/~thoqh49081/handouts/quran-canon.html |website=mesacc.edu/ |access-date=30 July 2020 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304140738/http://www.mesacc.edu/~thoqh49081/handouts/quran-canon.html |url-status=dead }} and completing the work around 650 CE (the exact date was not recorded by early Arab annalists). It is generally accepted that the Uthmanic text comprises all 114 surahs (chapters of the Quran) in the order known today.

The Qur'anic canon is the form of the Quran as recited and written in which it is religiously binding for the Muslim community. This canonical corpus is closed and fixed in the sense that nothing in the Quran can be changed or modified.{{cite book|last=Leaman|first=Oliver|title=The Qur'an: an Encyclopedia|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-415-32639-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/quranencyclopedi2006unse/page/136 136–139]|chapter=Canon|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/quranencyclopedi2006unse/page/136}}

According to the traditional Islamic narrative, by the time of Uthman's caliphate, there was a perceived need for clarification of Qur'an reading. The holy book had often been spread to others orally by Muslims who had memorized the Quran in its entirety (huffaz), but now "sharp divergence" had appeared in recitation of the book among Muslims.Cook, The Koran, 2000: p.119 It is believed the general Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman reported this problem to the caliph and asked him to establish a unified text. According to the history of al-Tabari, during the expedition to conquer Armenia and Azerbaijan there were 10,000 Kufan Muslim warriors, 6,000 in Azerbaijan and 4,000 at Rayy,{{cite book|last=Al-Tabari|title=The History of al-Tabari: The Crisis of the Early Caliphate|year=1990|publisher=State University of New York Press|location=Albany, NY|isbn=0-7914-0154-5|page=8|others=Stephen Humphreys (trans.)|editor1=Ihsan Abbas |editor2=C. E. Bosworth|editor3=Franz Rosenthal|editor4=Ehsan Yar-Sharter}} and a large number of these soldiers disagreed about the correct way of reciting the Quran.{{cite book|last=al-Tabari|title=The History of al-Tabari: The Crisis of the Early Caliphate|year=1990|publisher=State University of New York Press|location=Albany, NY|isbn=0-7914-0154-5|page=42|others=R. Humphreys (trans.)|editor1=Ihsan Abbas |editor2=C. E. Bosworth |editor3=Franz Rosenthal|editor4=Ehsan Yar-Sharter}}

What was more, many of the huffaz were dying. 70 had been killed in the Battle of Yamama.{{cite web |last1=EKINCI |first1=EKREM BUĞRA |title=History of the compilation of Quran |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2017/06/02/history-of-the-compilation-of-quran |website=Daily Sabah |access-date=30 July 2020 |date=2 June 2017}}

The Islamic empire had also grown considerably, expanding into Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Iran, bringing into Islam's fold many new converts from various cultures with varying degrees of isolation.{{cite book|last=Al-Tabari|title=The History of al-Tabari: The Conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Persia, and Egypt|year=1989|publisher=State University of New York Press|location=Albany, NY|isbn=0-88706-876-6|pages=2–6|others=Gautier H. A. Juynboll (trans.)|editor1=Ihsan Abbas|editor2=C. E. Bosworth|editor3=Jacob Lassner|editor4=Franz Rosenthal|editor5=Ehsan Yar-Shater}} These converts spoke a variety of languages but were not well learned in Arabic, and so Uthman felt it was important to standardize the written text of the Quran on one specific Arabic dialect.

Uthman obtained written "sheets" or parts of the Quran from Ḥafṣa, one of the widows of Muhammad. Other parts collected from Companions had been "written down on parchment, stone, palm leaves and the shoulder blades of camels".{{cite news |last1=CALAMUR |first1=KRISHNADEV |title=University In U.K. Finds Muhammad-Era Quran Pages Among Its Possessions |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/22/425360894/u-k-university-finds-muhammad-era-quran-among-its-possessions |access-date=30 July 2020 |agency=NPR |date=22 July 2015}} He appointed a commission consisting of a scribe of Muhammad, Zayd ibn Thabit and three prominent Meccans, and instructed them to copy the sheets into several volumes based on the dialect of the Quraysh — the tribe of Muhammad and the main tribe of Mecca.

Uthman's reaction in 653 is recorded in the following hadith from {{Hadith-usc|bukhari|6|61|510}}:

"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 the dialect of Quraish, the Quran was revealed in their tongue." They did so, and when they had written many copies, 'Uthman returned the original manuscripts to Hafsa. '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. Zayd bin Thabit added, "A Verse from Surat Ahzab was missed by me when we copied the Quran and I used to hear Allah's Apostle reciting it. So we searched for it and found it with Khuzaima bin Thabit Al-Ansari. [That verse was]: 'Among the Believers are men who have been true in their covenant with Allah.'"

When the task was finished Uthman kept one copy in Medina and sent others to Kufa, Baṣra, Damascus, and, according to some accounts, Mecca, and ordered that all other variant copies of the Quran be destroyed. Some non-Uthmanic Qurans are thought to have survived in Kufa, where Abdullah ibn Masud and his followers reportedly refused.{{cite encyclopedia |title=al-Kur'an |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Islam |edition=Second |date=2012 |url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-kuran-COM_0543 |url-access=subscription |editor-last=Bearman |editor-first=P. |editor-last2=Bianquis |editor-first2=Th. |editor-last3=Bosworth |editor-first3=C.E. |editor-last4=van Donzel |editor-first4=E. |editor-last5=Heinrichs |editor-first5=W.P. |publisher=Brill |last1=Pearson |first1=J. D. |last2=Paret |first2=R. |last3=Welch |first3=A. T.}}

This is one of the most contested issues and an area where many non-Muslim and Muslim scholars often clash.

According to Islamic tradition the Quran was revealed to Muhammad in seven ahruf (translated variously as "styles", "forms", or "modes",Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Tafseer Soorah Al-Hujuraat, 1990, Tawheed Publications, Riyadh, pp. 29–30. singular harf). However, Uthman canonized only one of the harf (according to tradition). According to Islamic tradition, the other ahruf were destroyed because after Muhammad's death a rivalry began to develop among some of the Arab tribes over the alleged superiority of their ahruf. In addition, some new converts to Islam began mixing the various forms of recitation out of ignorance.Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, Tafseer Soorah Al-Hujuraat, 1990, Tawheed Publications, Riyadh, p. 28-29{{cite web |title=Versions Of The Qur'an? |url=https://www.islamic-awareness.org/quran/text/qiraat/hafs |website=Islamic Awareness |access-date=16 July 2020 |date=15 January 2002}} Consequently, as part of the canonization of the Quran, caliph Uthman ordered the rest of the ahruf to be destroyed.

This does not mean that only one "reading" of the Quran is canonized. The single harf canonized by Uthman did not include vowels or diacritical marks for some consonants, which allowed for variant readings. Seven readings—known as Qira'at—were noted by scholar Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid and canonized in the 8th century CE.Shady Hekmat Nasser, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Kx7i2Y56WuYC&dq=aasim+qira%27ah&pg=PA57 Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings], p. 129. Taken from The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012. {{ISBN|9789004240810}} Later scholars, such as Ibn al-Jazari, added three other reciters (Abu Ja’far from Madinah, Ya’qub from Basrah, and Khalaf from Kufa) to form the canonical list of ten Qira'at.{{cite web |last1=Ajaja |first1=Abdurrazzak |title=القراءات : The readings |url=https://scientificsentence.net/newArabic/tajweed/index.php?key=yes&Integer=the_10_readings}}{{cite web |last1=Khan |first1=Nazir |last2=Khatib |first2=Ammar |title=The Origins of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an |url=https://yaqeeninstitute.org/nazir-khan/the-origins-of-the-variant-readings-of-the-quran/#ftnt2 |website=Yaqeen Institute |access-date=30 March 2020}}

Of the ten, the one qira'at has become so popular that (according to one source) "for all practical purposes", it is the one Quranic version in "general use" in the Muslim world todayBöwering, "Recent Research on the Construction of the Quran", 2008: p.74{{#tag:ref| Some other versions with minor divergences, namely those of Warsh (d.197/812) ....circulate in the northwestern regions of African.QA. Welch, Kuran, EI2 5, 409Böwering, "Recent Research on the Construction of the Quran", 2008: p.84|group=Note}} -- Hafs ‘an ‘Asim, specifically the standard Egyptian edition of the Qur’an first published on July 10, 1924 in Cairo. Mass-produced printing press mus'haf (written copies of the Quran) have been credited with narrowing the diversity of qira'at.{{cite book |last1=Mattson |first1=Ingrid |title=The Story of the Qur'an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life |date=2013 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons. |page=129 |isbn=9780470673492 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-eUnDh_OWgC&dq=recitation+of+Hafs+now+became+dominant&pg=PA129 |access-date=11 April 2020}}

{{Main|Mushaf of Ali}}

{{Ali}}Ali, the fourth Rashidun caliph ({{Reign|656|661}}) and the first Shia Imam, is widely believed to have compiled his own transcript of the Quran.{{Sfn|Lalani|2006|p=|pp=30{{ndash}}31}}{{Sfn|Esack|2005|p=89}} In particular, there are reports that Ali and some other companions of Muhammad collected the verses of the Quran during the lifetime of the prophet,{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=16{{ndash}}17}} while other reports emphasize that Ali prepared his codex immediately after the death of Muhammad in 632 CE.{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|pp=17{{ndash}}18}}{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=14}} This latter group of reports may have been fabricated to imply consensus about the caliphate of Abu Bakr, that is, the preoccupation of Ali with his codex in these reports is intended to justify his widely-rumored absence in the Saqifa meeting where Abu Bakr was elected caliph after Muhammad died.{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|pp=17{{ndash}}18}}

In his codex, Ali may have arranged the verses in the order by which they were revealed to Muhammad,{{Sfn|Lalani|2006|p=30}}{{Sfn|Modarressi|2003|p=2}} though this claim has been challenged.{{Sfn|Modarressi|2003|p=2}} The codex of Ali may have also included additional information on the abrogated verses of the Quran.{{Sfn|Modarressi|2003|p=2}} By some Shia accounts, Ali offered his codex for official use after the death of Muhammad but was turned down by some of the companions.{{Sfn|Modarressi|2003|p=2}} Alternatively, Ali may have offered his codex for official use to Uthman during his caliphate but the caliph rejected it in favor of other variants available to him.{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=14}} As for its fate, it is believed in Twelver Shia that the codex of Ali has been handed down from every Imam to his successor, as part of the esoteric knowledge available to the Twelve Imams.{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=150}}{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=24}}{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|pp=29{{ndash}}30}} In Twelver belief, the codex is now in the possession of their last Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi,{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|1994|p=89}} who is hidden from the public by divine will since 874, until his reappearance at the end of time to eradicate injustice and evil.{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|1998}}

{{See also|Ibn Mas'ud's arrangement}}

Some Sunni reports allege that the official Uthmanid codex of the Quran is incomplete,{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=|pp=22, 25{{ndash}}26}} as detailed in {{Transliteration|ar|Fada'il al-Qur'an}} by the Sunni exegete Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam ({{Died in|838}}), among others.{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=16}} Supporting Ali's right to the caliphate after Muhammad, Shia polemists readily cited such reports to charge that explicit references to Ali had been removed by senior companions for political reasons.{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=23}} Yet the accusation that some words and verses were altered or omitted in the Uthmanid codex also appears in the Shia tradition.{{Sfn|Bar-Asher|}}{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=24}}{{Sfn|Momen|1985|pp=172{{ndash}}173}} Among others, such reports can be found in {{Transliteration|ar|Kitab al-Qira'at}} by the ninth-century Shia exegete Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Sayyari,{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=|pp=22, 25{{ndash}}26}}{{Sfn|Kohlberg|2009|p=|pp=31{{ndash}}32}} though he has been widely accused of connections to the Ghulat ({{Lit|exaggerators|extremists}}).{{Sfn|Kohlberg|2009|pp=32{{ndash}}33}}{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=32}} As the faithful recension of the Quran, the codex of Ali is thus said to have been longer than the official one, with explicit references to Ali.{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=24}} This view was apparently popular among Shia scholars before the Buyid dynasty ({{Reign|934|1062}}).{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=26}} By contrast, any difference between the two codices is rejected by Sunnis because Ali did not impose his recension during his caliphate, while the Shia counterargument is that Ali deliberately remained silent about this divisive matter.{{Sfn|Esack|2005|p=90}} Fearing persecution for themselves and their followers, later Twelver Imams may have also adopted religious dissimulation ({{Transliteration|ar|taqiya}}) about this issue.{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|1994|pp=88{{ndash}}89, 204n455}}

Alternatively, the recension of Ali may have matched the Uthmanic codex, save for the ordering of its content,{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|1994|p=89}} but it was rejected for political reasons as it also included the partisan commentary of Ali,{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=25}} who is often counted among the foremost exegetes of the Quran.{{Sfn|Lalani|2006|p=29}} The implication that the Uthmanid codex is faithful has been the prevalent Shia view ever since the Buyids period.{{Sfn|Momen|1985|p=|pp=77, 81}} Some Shia scholars have thus questioned the authenticity of those traditions that allege textual differences with the Uthmanid codex, tracing them to the Ghulat,{{Sfn|Amir-Moezzi|2009|p=28}}{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|pp=36{{ndash}}39}} or to early Sunni traditions,{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|pp=36{{ndash}}39}} while Sunnis have in turn blamed Shias for originating the falsification claims and accused them of espousing such views, often indiscriminately.{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|pp=36{{ndash}}39}}{{Sfn|Momen|1985|p=74}} Other Shia scholars have reinterpreted the traditions that may suggest the alteration of the Quran.{{Sfn|Ayoub|1988|p=191}} For instance, a tradition ascribed to Ali suggests that a fourth of the Quran is about the House of Muhammad, or the Ahl al-Bayt, while another fourth is about their enemies. The Uthmanic codex certainly does not meet this description but the inconsistency can be explained by another Shia tradition, which states that the verses of the Quran about the virtuous are primarily directed at the Ahl al-Bayt, while those verses about the evildoers are directed first at their enemies.{{Sfn|Modarressi|1993|p=29}}

{{See also|Hadith studies}}{{Hadith}}

Second only to the Quran in authority as a source for religious law and moral guidance in Islam,{{cite web |title=Hadith |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hadith |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=31 July 2020}} are Hadith—the record of what Muslims believe to be the words, actions, and the silent approval of Muhammad. While the number of verses pertaining to law in the Quran is relatively few, hadith give direction on everything from details of religious obligations (such as Ghusl or Wudu, ablutionsAn-Nawawi, Riyadh As-Salihin, 1975: p.203 for salat prayer), to the correct forms of salutationsAn-Nawawi, Riyadh As-Salihin, 1975: p.168 and the importance of benevolence to slaves.An-Nawawi, Riyadh As-Salihin, 1975: p.229 Thus the "great bulk" of the rules of Sharia (Islamic law) are derived from hadith, rather than the Quran.){{cite journal|last1=Forte|first1=David F.|title=Islamic Law; the impact of Joseph Schacht|journal=Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review |date=1978|volume=1|page=2 |url=http://www.soerenkern.com/pdfs/islam/IslamicLawTheImpactofJosephSchacht.pdf |access-date=19 April 2018}} Scriptural authority for hadith comes from the Quran which enjoins Muslims to emulate Muhammad and obey his judgments (in verses such as {{cite quran|24|54|s=ns|b=n}}, {{cite quran|33|21|s=ns|b=n}}).

Because there were a large number of false hadith, a great deal of effort was expended by scholars in a field known as hadith studies to sift through and grade hadith on a scale of authenticity. In Sunni Islam there are six major authentic hadith collections known as the Kutub al-Sittah (six books){{cite web |title=Sahih Muslim (7 Vol. Set) |url=http://store.dar-us-salam.com/eng_hadith/H17.html |work=Dar-us-Salam Islamic Bookstore |type=online bookshop catalogue entry|access-date=5 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601232047/http://store.dar-us-salam.com/Eng_Hadith/H17.html |archive-date=1 June 2009 }} or al-Sihah al-Sittah (the authentic six).

The two "most famous" 'Authentic' (Sahih) ḥadīth collections are those of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim — known as the sahihayn (two sahih). These works came out over two centuries after the Uthmanic codex, (the hadith collections do not have original publishing dates but the authors' death dates range from 870 to 915 CE).

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Because the Kutub al-Sittah hadith collections used by Sunni Muslims were based on narrators and transmitters that Shia Islam believed treated Ali unfairly and so were not trustworthy, Shia follow different hadith collections. The most famous being "The Four Books", which were compiled by three authors who are known as the 'Three Muhammads'.Momen, Moojan, Introduction to Shi'i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985, p.174. The Four Books are: Kitab al-Kafi by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni al-Razi (329 AH), Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih by Muhammad ibn Babuya and Al-Tahdhib and Al-Istibsar both by Shaykh Muhammad Tusi. Shi'a clerics also make use of extensive collections and commentaries by later authors.

Not only were the hadith collections compiled centuries after the Quran, but their canonization also came much later. Scholar Jonathan A. C. Brown has studied the process of canonization of the two "most famous" collections of hadith -- sahihayn of al-Bukhari and Muslim—which went from "controversial to indispensable" over the centuries.{{cite web |title=The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim |url=https://brill.com/flyer/title/12924?print=pdf&pdfGenerator=headless_chrome |website=Brill |access-date=31 July 2020}}

From their very creation, they were subject to withering criticism and rejection: Muslim was forced to argue that his book was merely meant as a 'private collection' (94) and al-Bukhari was accused of plagiarism (95). The 4th/10th and 5th/11th centuries were no kinder, for while the Shafi'is [school of fiqh law] championed the Sahihayn, Malikis were initially enamored of their own texts and 'tangential to the Sahihayn network" (37), while the Hanbalis were openly critical. Not until the mid-5th/11th century did these schools come to a tacit agreement on the status of 'the Sahihayn canon as a measure of authenticity in polemics and exposition of their schools' doctrines' (222); it would be three more centuries before the Hanafis would join them in this assessment.quotation comes from review by Jonathan Brockopp, not from book author Jonathan Brown{{cite journal |last1=Brockopp |first1=Jonathan E. |title=Reviewed Work: The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon by Jonathan A. C. Brown |journal=Islamic Law and Society |date=2010 |volume=17 |issue=2 |page=280 |doi=10.1163/092893810X502968 |jstor=25704011 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25704011 |access-date=31 July 2020|url-access=subscription }}

Brown writes that the books achieved iconic status in the Sunni Muslim community such that public readings of them were made in Cairo in 790 AH/1388 CE to ward off plague and the Moroccan statesman Mawlay Isma'il (d.1727) "dubbed his special troops the 'slaves of al-Bukhari'".{{cite journal |last1=Brockopp |first1=Jonathan E. |title=Reviewed Work: The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon by Jonathan A. C. Brown |journal=Islamic Law and Society |date=2010 |volume=17 |issue=2 |page=281 |doi=10.1163/092893810X502968 |jstor=25704011 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25704011 |access-date=31 July 2020|url-access=subscription }}

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{{Characters and names in the Quran}}

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