Al-Nuzul al-Tadriji: Difference between revisions

According to Quranic exegetes, the Qur'an was revealed piecemeal, dependently on appropriate temporal and spatial circumstances, by [[Gabriel]] to the Prophet (s). In terminologies of [[Quranic sciences]], this is known as "tadriji" (gradual) or "tafsili" (articulated) revelation, which is in contrast to "daf'i revelation" (instant revelation) of the Qur'an which took place in the Night of Qadr when the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet (s) all at once. The majority of exegetes take the gradual revelation to have taken twenty three years. However, on other accounts, the duration of the gradual revelation was twenty years.