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==The Reason for the Compilation of al-Mushaf al-Uthmani== | ==The Reason for the Compilation of al-Mushaf al-Uthmani== | ||
Since mushafs compiled by the companions were different in their arrangements of suras and spellings, they gave rise to disagreements among Muslims over the Qur'an. Each group of the companions considered their own mushaf to be the right one, and took other manuscripts to be inaccurate or fabricated. Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Hujjati, a scholar of Quranic sciences, has quoted al-Tabari as saying that such disagreements sometimes led to [[takfir]]. | Since mushafs compiled by the companions were different in their arrangements of suras and spellings, they gave rise to disagreements among Muslims over the Qur'an. Each group of the companions considered their own mushaf to be the right one, and took other manuscripts to be inaccurate or fabricated<ref>Ḥujjatī, ''Pajūhishī dar tārīkh-i Qurʾān-i Karīm'', p. 438.</ref>. Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Hujjati, a scholar of Quranic sciences, has quoted al-Tabari as saying that such disagreements sometimes led to [[takfir]]<ref>Ḥujjatī, ''Pajūhishī dar tārīkh-i Qurʾān-i Karīm'', p. 438.</ref>. | ||
To settle the disputes, [[Uthman b. Affan]] ordered four people to compile a single Quranic manuscript based on the available manuscripts at the time. He also ordered the destruction of all available manuscripts of the Qur'an in different Islamic areas at the time. | To settle the disputes, [[Uthman b. Affan]] ordered four people to compile a single Quranic manuscript based on the available manuscripts at the time<ref>Ḥujjatī, ''Pajūhishī dar tārīkh-i Qurʾān-i Karīm'', p. 439-40; Maʿrifat, ''al-Tamhīd'', vol. 1, pp. 338-39.</ref>. He also ordered the destruction of all available manuscripts of the Qur'an in different Islamic areas at the time<ref>Ḥujjatī, ''Pajūhishī dar tārīkh-i Qurʾān-i Karīm'', p. 440; Maʿrifat, ''al-Tamhīd'', vol. 1, pp. 346.</ref>. | ||
==Time of Compilation== | ==Time of Compilation== | ||