The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Preservation of the Qur’an
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Qur’an. One of them recited a certain verse and
said: “This is the way of recitation of Abdullah ibn
Masood.” Another recited it with a different accent
and said that was how Abu Musa Al-Ashari recited
it. Huzayfa, enraged on hearing this, stood up and
admonished this group: “Those before you (people
of the book) differed just like this. By God, I will go
riding to the leader of the believers, Uthman, the
third caliph.”
Huzayfa was a military officer posted in Armenia
and Azerbaijan, and had just come back from doing
battle. But when he reached Madina; and witnessed
the scene in the Prophet’s mosque, instead of going
straight home, he went directly to the third caliph
and addressed him thus: “O Leader of the believers!
Take care of the people, before they fall victim to
the differences regarding the book of God just as the
Jews and the Christians did.”
During the caliphate of Uthman there entered the
fold of Islam peoples whose mother tongue was not
Arabic, and who were not able to speak the
language with the proper accent and pronunciation.
Even the various Arab tribes themselves had
