ism

1352
Muslims. Essentially a religion of the book, Islam sees all authentic religions as being associated with a scripture. That is why
Muslims call Christians and Jews the "people of the book".
Throughout all its chapters and verses, the Quran emphasizes the significance of knowledge and encourages Muslims to
learn and to acquire knowledge not only of God's laws and religious injunctions, but also of the world of nature. The Quran
refers, in a language rich in its varied terminology, to the importance of seeing, contemplating, and reasoning about the world
of creation and its diverse phenomena. It places the gaining of knowledge as the highest religious activity, one that is most
pleasing in God's eyes. That is why wherever the message of the Quran was accepted and understood, the quest for
knowledge flourished.
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith
Hadith 9.301 Narrated by
Zaid bin Thabit
Abu Bakr sent for me owing to the large number of casualties in the battle of Al-Yamama, while 'Umar was sitting with him.
Abu Bakr said (to me), (Umar has come to me and said, 'A great number of Qaris of the Holy Qur'an were killed on the day of
the battle of Al-Yamama, and I am afraid that the casualties among the Qaris of the Quran may increase on other battlefields
whereby a large part of the Quran may be lost. Therefore I consider it advisable that you (Abu Bakr) should have the Qur'an
collected.' I said, 'How dare I do something which Allah's Apostle did not do?' 'Umar said, By Allah, it is something beneficial.'
'Umar kept on pressing me for that till Allah opened my chest for that for which He had opened the chest of 'Umar and I had
in that matter, the same opinion as 'Umar had." Abu Bakr then said to me (Zaid), "You are a wise young man and we do not
have any suspicion about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah's Apostle. So you should search for the
fragmentary scripts of the Quran and collect it (in one Book)." Zaid further said: By Allah, if Abu Bakr had ordered me to shift
a mountain among the mountains from one place to another it would not have been heavier for me than this ordering me to
collect the Qur'an. Then I said (to 'Umar and Abu Bakr), "How can you do something which Allah's Apostle did not do?" Abu
Bakr said, "By Allah, it is something beneficial." Zaid added: So he (Abu Bakr) kept on pressing me for that until Allah opened
my chest for that for which He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and 'Umar, and I had in that matter, the same opinion as
theirs.
So I started compiling the Qur'an by collecting it from the leafless stalks of the date-palm tree and from the pieces of leather
and hides and from the stones, and from the chests of men (who had memorized the Quran). I found the last verses of Siratat-Tauba:
)Verily there has come unto you an Apostle (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves..." (9.128-129) ) from
Khuzaima or Abi Khuzaima and I added to it the rest of the Sura. The manuscripts of the Qur'an remained with Abu Bakr till
Allah took him unto Him. Then it remained with 'Umar till Allah took him unto Him, and then with Hafsa bint 'Umar.
Al-Muwatta Hadith
Hadith 15.16
The Prostration of the Qur'an
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab once recited a piece of Qur'an
requiring a prostration while he was on the mimbar on the day of jumua, and he came down and prostrated, and everyone
prostrated with him. Then he recited it again the next jumua and everybody prepared to prostrate but he said, "At your ease.
Allah has not prescribed it for us, unless we wish." He did not prostrate, and he stopped them from prostrating.
Malik said, "The imam does not come down and prostrate when he recites a piece of Qur'an requiring a prostration while he
is on the mimbar."
Malik said, "The position with us is that there are eleven prescribed prostrations in the Qur'an, none of which are in the
mufassal."
Malik said, "No-one should recite any of the pieces of Qur'an that require a prostration after the prayers of subh and asr. This
is because the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade prayer after subh until after the sun
had risen, and after asr until the sun had set, and prostration is part of the prayer. So no-one should recite any piece of
Qur'an requiring a prostration during these two periods of time."
Malik was asked whether a menstruating woman could prostrate if she heard some-one reciting a passage of Qur'an
requiring a prostration, and he said, "Neither a man nor a woman should prostrate unless they are ritually pure."
Malik was asked whether a man in the company of a woman who was reciting a passage of Qur'an requiring a prostration
should prostrate with her, and he said, "He does not have to prostrate with her. The prostration is only obligatory for people
who are with a man who is leading them. He recites the piece and they prostrate with him. Some one who hears a piece of
Qur'an that requires a prostration being recited by a man who is not leading him in prayer does not have to do the
prostration."
Fiqh-us-Sunnah
Fiqh 1.40a
Touching a copy of the Qur'an
Go to UP
1352