Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi
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study <strong>of</strong> history<br />
Compin'ions decreased considerably in the Battle<br />
„f ahYamitnah, srhen fourteen hundred <strong>of</strong> them<br />
were martyred. 4 _ „ , ,<br />
After reporting this, al-Tabari, al-Buu 5ti,<br />
Ibn Katbir and Ibn ai-Nadim have narrated that<br />
when Abu Bakr and ‘Urnar came to know <strong>of</strong> the<br />
martyrdom <strong>of</strong> these memorisers <strong>of</strong> tee Qur §.o,<br />
they felt much concerned at the thought that<br />
in<br />
the future wars, waged for the sake <strong>of</strong> Islam,<br />
all those who had memorised the Qur'an might<br />
be killed, and these transmitters <strong>of</strong><br />
the Qur'an<br />
may become extinct. Therefore they set up a<br />
board <strong>of</strong> scribes headed by Zaid b. Th&bit and<br />
entrusted to them all those tablets, bones and<br />
pieces <strong>of</strong> leather in which the Qur’&n had been<br />
preserved by the Holy Prophet and asked them<br />
to perform the duty <strong>of</strong> compiling the Book <strong>of</strong><br />
God in a systematic manner.<br />
These historians agree that after careful<br />
research and scrutiny a copy <strong>of</strong> the Holy Qur'an<br />
P re P are d by w k‘ ch<br />
Ahfi<br />
was preserved by<br />
Abu Bakr as the most precious possession <strong>of</strong> the<br />
S n * s8: ibn Katbir '<br />
vol,v<br />
account<br />
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