15 Years after the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away, Caliph Uthman ordered that all Quran copies to be burnt. What?! Well, that aimed to give respect to the Quran. Definitely, it was not a sort of Terry-Jones action. There is a story behind this decision. In the west, It is an …
During the time of `Uthman ibn `Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) differences in reading the Qur’an became obvious. After consultation with the Companions, `Uthman had a standard copy prepared from thesuhufof Abu Bakr that were kept with Hafsah at that time. The following is the report in theSahih ofAl–Bukhari: Anas bin Malik narrated …
Uthman ibn Affan was a man so loved by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that he was called the possessor of two lights. Uthman was married to Prophet Muhammad’s daughter Ruqayyah. When she died, he married Muhammad’s other daughter, Umm Kulthum, thus possessing the two lights.
The two noble daughters Ruqayya and Umm Kalthum shared almost everything in common. Before Islam, both her and her sister Umm Kalthum were married to the sons of Abu Lahab Utaybah and Utbah respectively. Abu Lahab and his wife, um Jamil, were…
Short Answer: After the expansion of the Islamic state, people learned the Quran according to their dialects. Therefore, Uthman ibn Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) supervised the process of making a standard version of the Quran. The process was assigned to Zayd ibn Thabit and a number of other companions of the Prophet …
One of the questions that many people ask is: Why did the third Caliph, `Uthman, burn all copies of the Quran during his reign? This is viewed as something sacrilegious or indicating that the Qur’an was wrong. There is cultural misunderstanding here, because from the Islamic tradition when you burn the Qur’an you are not …
Uthman accepted Islam easily partly because of the dreamlike vision he had experienced whilst on a journey home from Syria. While trying to fall asleep Uthman had heard a voice calling out, “O sleepers arise because Ahmad has emerged in Mecca” it said.
One of the questions that many people ask is: Why did the third Caliph, `Uthman, burn all copies of the Qur’an during his reign? This is viewed as something sacrilegious or indicating that the Qur’an was wrong.
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