The third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, ordered the burning of secondary and variant copies of the Quran around 650–656 AD to standardize the text and prevent sectarian disputes over recitation. This was not a destruction of the original, but a unification of all official copies into one standardized dialect
MOSSxMAN on
Impossible. Theres only ever been one version according to the guy screaming on the street corner over here.
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
It’s a sound idea, if what your Prophet says is the word of God, how the hell do you determine what is true or not when there are people running around telling different things of what the prophet said? Uthman probably didn’t want division and sectarian divides caused by disagreements as to what is scripture and what is not
wolahipirate on
misleading af. We have an example of a preuthmanic standardization manuscript – lookup sana manuscript. It contained almost identical text to the modern quaran with the only difference being grammer, and certain vowel sounds and punctuation. The meaning/message of the text was preserved. all uthman did standardize those minute irrelevant differences.
Its further exemplified by the fact that soon after muhameds death came the Ridda wars, where a bunch of new claimants as the messenger of god and leader of islam rose up against the caliphate. if any of the caliphs changed the quaran this would have been a common early dispute these challengers would have made, deligitimizing the caliphate.
Toad6202 on
Oh and 50 years later or so the guy who killed a bunch of the prophets descendants standardized the Quran again (by adding vowels and stuff) which may or may not include him altering the original texts
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The third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, ordered the burning of secondary and variant copies of the Quran around 650–656 AD to standardize the text and prevent sectarian disputes over recitation. This was not a destruction of the original, but a unification of all official copies into one standardized dialect
Impossible. Theres only ever been one version according to the guy screaming on the street corner over here.
It’s a sound idea, if what your Prophet says is the word of God, how the hell do you determine what is true or not when there are people running around telling different things of what the prophet said? Uthman probably didn’t want division and sectarian divides caused by disagreements as to what is scripture and what is not
misleading af. We have an example of a preuthmanic standardization manuscript – lookup sana manuscript. It contained almost identical text to the modern quaran with the only difference being grammer, and certain vowel sounds and punctuation. The meaning/message of the text was preserved. all uthman did standardize those minute irrelevant differences.
Its further exemplified by the fact that soon after muhameds death came the Ridda wars, where a bunch of new claimants as the messenger of god and leader of islam rose up against the caliphate. if any of the caliphs changed the quaran this would have been a common early dispute these challengers would have made, deligitimizing the caliphate.
Oh and 50 years later or so the guy who killed a bunch of the prophets descendants standardized the Quran again (by adding vowels and stuff) which may or may not include him altering the original texts