Revelation & Preservation of the Qurʾān — What the Sources Report

Only Sunni sources are used. Every text below is quoted from its source with its reference; hadith grades are the ones the collections give. No story has been written on top of them: a narrative will be added only from statements a named scholar has reviewed.

Honouring the Prophet’s household and all the Companions is part of the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah. This page presents sources; it does not pass judgement on any Companion.

This is a study aid. Every text is quoted in the source’s own words with its reference. The grades are the ones each collection or its editors give (for Musnad Aḥmad, al-Arnaʾūṭ’s grading as printed in the edition); weak reports are shown with their grade, not hidden and not promoted.

This page says nothing about the text of the Qurʾān or its readings on its own authority, and it gives no fatwā. Where a report or a scholar discusses a reading or a wording, those are that source’s words. The Qurʾān itself is on the muṣḥaf pages.

The books of ʿulūm al-Qurʾān are read only in their own chapters on these subjects (for example al-Suyūṭī’s chapters on the first revelation, on how it was sent down, and on its compilation and order). Later books often quote earlier ones, so the same report in several books is usually one report.

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