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	==Extant Manuscripts==		==Extant Manuscripts==

	No copy of the Uthmanic recension exists despite its centrality as the Ur-Qur'an of all modern readings, so no confirmation is available via comparison with it. A very old palimpsest (imprinted scroll which was washed and written over) is extant from Sana'a, Yemen (the [[Sana Manuscript\|Sana'a Manuscript]], which contains variants not found in any of the accepted readings of the Qur'an. The Islamic narrative itself comes to us mostly through the hadith tradition, which has been proven since Ignac Goldziher in the 19th century to be unreliable due to the nature of the "asaanid" or chains of authority supporting the hadith and the immense gulf of time between when the hadith were collected and when Muhammad lived. In addition the earliest copies of the Qur'an lack vowel and many diacritic markings, indicating that they were more a guide for memorization than the fully-fleshed out text that is extant today.		No copy of the Uthmanic recension exists despite its centrality as the Ur-Qur'an of all modern readings, so no confirmation is available via comparison with it. A very old palimpsest (imprinted scroll which was washed and written over) is extant from Sana'a, Yemen (the [[Sana Manuscript\|Sana'a Manuscript]]), which contains variants not found in any of the accepted readings of the Qur'an. The Islamic narrative itself comes to us mostly through the hadith tradition, which has been proven since Ignac Goldziher in the 19th century to be unreliable due to the nature of the "asaanid" or chains of authority supporting the hadith and the immense gulf of time between when the hadith were collected and when Muhammad lived. In addition the earliest copies of the Qur'an lack vowel and many diacritic markings, indicating that they were more a guide for memorization than the fully-fleshed out text that is extant today.

	The earliest found copies of the Qur'an do not have diacritical marks, and evidence points to changes made to the Uthmanic recension.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web \|last=Taher \|first=Abul \|title=Querying the Koran \|work=The Guardian \|date=2000-08-08 \|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4048586,00.html \|}}		The earliest found copies of the Qur'an do not have diacritical marks, and evidence points to changes made to the Uthmanic recension.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web \|last=Taher \|first=Abul \|title=Querying the Koran \|work=The Guardian \|date=2000-08-08 \|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4048586,00.html \|}}

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The Collection of the Qur'anic Corpus under Caliph Uthman

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	{{Quote\|{{Muslim\|5\|2286}}\| Abu Harb b. Abu al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari sent for the reciters of Basra. They came to him and they were three hundred in number. They recited the Qur'an and he said: You are the best among the inhabitants of Basra, for you are the reciters among them. So continue to recite it. (But bear in mind) that your reciting for a long time may not harden your hearts as were hardened the hearts of those before you. We used to recite a surah which resembled in length and severity to (Surah) Bara'at. '''I have, however, forgotten it''' with the exception of this which I remember out of it: "If there were two valleys full of riches, for the son of Adam, he would long for a third valley, and nothing would fill the stomach of the son of Adam but dust." And we used to recite a surah which resembled one of the surahs of Musabbihat, and '''I have forgotten it''', but remember (this much) out of it: "O people who believe, why do you say that which you do not practise" (lxi. 2) and "that is recorded in your necks as a witness (against you) and you would be asked about it on the Day of Resurrection"}}		{{Quote\|{{Muslim\|5\|2286}}\| Abu Harb b. Abu al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari sent for the reciters of Basra. They came to him and they were three hundred in number. They recited the Qur'an and he said: You are the best among the inhabitants of Basra, for you are the reciters among them. So continue to recite it. (But bear in mind) that your reciting for a long time may not harden your hearts as were hardened the hearts of those before you. We used to recite a surah which resembled in length and severity to (Surah) Bara'at. '''I have, however, forgotten it''' with the exception of this which I remember out of it: "If there were two valleys full of riches, for the son of Adam, he would long for a third valley, and nothing would fill the stomach of the son of Adam but dust." And we used to recite a surah which resembled one of the surahs of Musabbihat, and '''I have forgotten it''', but remember (this much) out of it: "O people who believe, why do you say that which you do not practise" (lxi. 2) and "that is recorded in your necks as a witness (against you) and you would be asked about it on the Day of Resurrection"}}

	==~~Fate of the Islamic Narrative~~==		==Extant Manuscripts==

	No copy of the Uthmanic ~~rescension~~ exists despite its centrality as the Ur-Qur'an of all modern readings, so no confirmation is available via comparison with it. A very old ~~palimpset~~ (imprinted scroll which was washed and written over) is extant from Sana'a, Yemen, which contains variants not found in any of the accepted readings of the Qur'an. The Islamic narrative itself comes to us mostly through the hadith tradition, which has been proven since Ignac Goldziher in the 19th century to be unreliable due to the nature of the "asaanid" or chains of authority supporting the hadith and the immense gulf of time between when the hadith were collected and when Muhammad lived. In addition the earliest copies of the Qur'an lack vowel and many diacritic markings, indicating that they were more a guide for memorization than the fully-fleshed out text that is extant today.		No copy of the Uthmanic recension exists despite its centrality as the Ur-Qur'an of all modern readings, so no confirmation is available via comparison with it. A very old palimpsest (imprinted scroll which was washed and written over) is extant from Sana'a, Yemen (the [[Sana Manuscript\|Sana'a Manuscript]], which contains variants not found in any of the accepted readings of the Qur'an. The Islamic narrative itself comes to us mostly through the hadith tradition, which has been proven since Ignac Goldziher in the 19th century to be unreliable due to the nature of the "asaanid" or chains of authority supporting the hadith and the immense gulf of time between when the hadith were collected and when Muhammad lived. In addition the earliest copies of the Qur'an lack vowel and many diacritic markings, indicating that they were more a guide for memorization than the fully-fleshed out text that is extant today.

	The earliest found copies of the Qur'an do not have diacritical marks, and evidence points to changes made to the Uthmanic recension.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web \|last=Taher \|first=Abul \|title=Querying the Koran \|work=The Guardian \|date=2000-08-08 \|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4048586,00.html \|}}		The earliest found copies of the Qur'an do not have diacritical marks, and evidence points to changes made to the Uthmanic recension.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web \|last=Taher \|first=Abul \|title=Querying the Koran \|work=The Guardian \|date=2000-08-08 \|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4048586,00.html \|}}

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	{{Quote\|{{Muslim\|5\|2286}}\| Abu Harb b. Abu al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari sent for the reciters of Basra. They came to him and they were three hundred in number. They recited the Qur'an and he said: You are the best among the inhabitants of Basra, for you are the reciters among them. So continue to recite it. (But bear in mind) that your reciting for a long time may not harden your hearts as were hardened the hearts of those before you. We used to recite a surah which resembled in length and severity to (Surah) Bara'at. '''I have, however, forgotten it''' with the exception of this which I remember out of it: "If there were two valleys full of riches, for the son of Adam, he would long for a third valley, and nothing would fill the stomach of the son of Adam but dust." And we used to recite a surah which resembled one of the surahs of Musabbihat, and '''I have forgotten it''', but remember (this much) out of it: "O people who believe, why do you say that which you do not practise" (lxi. 2) and "that is recorded in your necks as a witness (against you) and you would be asked about it on the Day of Resurrection"}}		{{Quote\|{{Muslim\|5\|2286}}\| Abu Harb b. Abu al-Aswad reported on the authority of his father that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari sent for the reciters of Basra. They came to him and they were three hundred in number. They recited the Qur'an and he said: You are the best among the inhabitants of Basra, for you are the reciters among them. So continue to recite it. (But bear in mind) that your reciting for a long time may not harden your hearts as were hardened the hearts of those before you. We used to recite a surah which resembled in length and severity to (Surah) Bara'at. '''I have, however, forgotten it''' with the exception of this which I remember out of it: "If there were two valleys full of riches, for the son of Adam, he would long for a third valley, and nothing would fill the stomach of the son of Adam but dust." And we used to recite a surah which resembled one of the surahs of Musabbihat, and '''I have forgotten it''', but remember (this much) out of it: "O people who believe, why do you say that which you do not practise" (lxi. 2) and "that is recorded in your necks as a witness (against you) and you would be asked about it on the Day of Resurrection"}}

	==~~The~~ Islamic Narrative==		==Fate of the Islamic Narrative==

	No copy of the Uthmanic rescension exists despite its centrality as the Ur-Qur'an of all modern readings, so no confirmation is available via comparison with it. A very old palimpset (imprinted scroll which was washed and written over) is extant from Sana'a, Yemen, which contains variants not found in any of the accepted readings of the Qur'an. The Islamic narrative itself comes to us mostly through the hadith tradition, which has been proven since Ignac Goldziher in the 19th century to be unreliable due to the nature of the "asaanid" or chains of authority supporting the hadith and the immense gulf of time between when the hadith were collected and when Muhammad lived. In addition the earliest copies of the Qur'an lack vowel and many diacritic markings, indicating that they were more a guide for memorization than the fully-fleshed out text that is extant today.		No copy of the Uthmanic rescension exists despite its centrality as the Ur-Qur'an of all modern readings, so no confirmation is available via comparison with it. A very old palimpset (imprinted scroll which was washed and written over) is extant from Sana'a, Yemen, which contains variants not found in any of the accepted readings of the Qur'an. The Islamic narrative itself comes to us mostly through the hadith tradition, which has been proven since Ignac Goldziher in the 19th century to be unreliable due to the nature of the "asaanid" or chains of authority supporting the hadith and the immense gulf of time between when the hadith were collected and when Muhammad lived. In addition the earliest copies of the Qur'an lack vowel and many diacritic markings, indicating that they were more a guide for memorization than the fully-fleshed out text that is extant today.
	~~==Conclusion==~~

	The earliest found copies of the Qur'an do not have diacritical marks, and evidence points to changes made to the Uthmanic recension.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web \|last=Taher \|first=Abul \|title=Querying the Koran \|work=The Guardian \|date=2000-08-08 \|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4048586,00.html \|}}		The earliest found copies of the Qur'an do not have diacritical marks, and evidence points to changes made to the Uthmanic recension.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web \|last=Taher \|first=Abul \|title=Querying the Koran \|work=The Guardian \|date=2000-08-08 \|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited \|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4048586,00.html \|}}

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	==External links==		==External links==

	*[http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Text/ Textual Variants of the Qur'an] ''- [[Answering Islam]]''		*[http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Text/ Textual Variants of the Qur'an] ''- Answering Islam''

	==References==		==References==

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	The perfect and total preservation of the text of the [[Qur'an]] is an article of faith for most schools and sects of Islam. The textual integrity of the scripture is an important topic in Muslim circles and figures highly in the beliefs of Muslims around the divine nature of their religion. The orthodox Islamic scholars argue that the text of the Qur'an today is identical to that received by Prophet [[Muhammad]]. This contention however is challenged both by parts of the Islamic tradition itself and the findings of modern scholarship.		The perfect and total preservation of the text of the [[Qur'an]] is an article of faith for most schools and sects of Islam. The textual integrity of the scripture is an important topic in Muslim circles and figures highly in the beliefs of Muslims around the divine nature of their religion. The orthodox Islamic scholars argue that the text of the Qur'an today is identical to that received by Prophet [[Muhammad]]. This contention however is challenged both by parts of the Islamic tradition itself and the findings of modern scholarship.

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	{{QualityScore\|Lead=1\|Structure=2\|Content=3\|Language=4\|References=3}}		{{QualityScore\|Lead=1\|Structure=2\|Content=3\|Language=4\|References=3}}
	The perfect and total preservation of the text of the [[Qur'an]] is an article of faith for most schools and sects of Islam. The textual integrity of the scripture is an important topic in Muslim circles and figures highly in the beliefs of Muslims around the divine nature of their religion. The orthodox Islamic scholars argue ~~says~~ that the text of the Qur'an today is identical to that received by Prophet [[Muhammad]]. This contention however is challenged both by parts of the Islamic tradition itself and the findings of modern scholarship.		The perfect and total preservation of the text of the [[Qur'an]] is an article of faith for most schools and sects of Islam. The textual integrity of the scripture is an important topic in Muslim circles and figures highly in the beliefs of Muslims around the divine nature of their religion. The orthodox Islamic scholars argue that the text of the Qur'an today is identical to that received by Prophet [[Muhammad]]. This contention however is challenged both by parts of the Islamic tradition itself and the findings of modern scholarship.

	==Collection of the Qur'an==		==Collection of the Qur'an==

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	==The Collection of the Qur'anic Corpus under Caliph Uthman==		==The Collection of the Qur'anic Corpus under Caliph Uthman==

	~~Various~~ sources report that the third caliph Uthman ordered various copies of the Qur'an to be burnt because there were clear differences in the recitation of Qur'an among people of Sham and people of Iraq. The differences were so great Uthman and his companions feared future dispute about true Qur'an and its contents. So Uthman asked Hafsa for her copy and he ordered to make many copies of Qur'an and to burn and destroy all the existing copies of the Qur'an. Uthman ordered others to accept Hafsa's copy as the official Qur'anic text. That this happened at all indicates at one time even the Muslim community acknowledged the existence of multiple divergent versions of the Qur'an.		Multiple sources report that the third caliph Uthman ordered various copies of the Qur'an to be burnt because there were clear differences in the recitation of Qur'an among people of Sham and people of Iraq. The differences were so great Uthman and his companions feared future dispute about true Qur'an and its contents. So Uthman asked Hafsa for her copy and he ordered to make many copies of Qur'an and to burn and destroy all the existing copies of the Qur'an. Uthman ordered others to accept Hafsa's copy as the official Qur'anic text. That this happened at all indicates at one time even the Muslim community acknowledged the existence of multiple divergent versions of the Qur'an.

	{{Quote\|{{Bukhari\|6\|61\|510}}\|		{{Quote\|{{Bukhari\|6\|61\|510}}\|

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	'A'isha reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) heard a person reciting the Qur'an at night. Upon this he said: May Allah show mercy to him; he has reminded me of such and such a verse which I had missed in such and such a surah.}}		'A'isha reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) heard a person reciting the Qur'an at night. Upon this he said: May Allah show mercy to him; he has reminded me of such and such a verse which I had missed in such and such a surah.}}

	The Qur'an says that even ~~his~~ messenger might forget certain verses:		The Qur'an says that even the messenger might forget certain verses:

	{{Quote\|{{Quran\|87\|6}}\|		{{Quote\|{{Quran\|87\|6}}\|

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	'A'isha reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) heard a person reciting the Qur'an at night. Upon this he said: May Allah show mercy to him; he has reminded me of such and such a verse which I had missed in such and such a surah.}}		'A'isha reported that the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) heard a person reciting the Qur'an at night. Upon this he said: May Allah show mercy to him; he has reminded me of such and such a verse which I had missed in such and such a surah.}}

	~~Allah in the~~ Qur'an says that even his messenger might forget certain verses:		The Qur'an says that even his messenger might forget certain verses:

	{{Quote\|{{Quran\|87\|6}}\|		{{Quote\|{{Quran\|87\|6}}\|