Category: The Prophet (s.a.w.)

The Prophet as Teacher

The first verse revealed to the Prophet was: ‘Read! in the name of your Lord and Cherisher, Who Created.’ Arriving in Madina, the Prophet set up the Suffa, a school dedicated to instructing its attendees in the skills of literacy, providing them with food and a place to sleep as well. Approximately 900 Companions took… Read More The Prophet as Teacher

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The Prophet’s Dictation of the Qur’an and Zaid

Some references allege that the Mushafs used by Ubayy bin Ka’b and Ibn Mas’ud exhibited discrepancies in their arrangement of suras, based on the universal norm. But nowhere do we find any reference to a disagreement in the ordering of verses within a particular sura. Scholars unanimously agree that to follow the sura order in… Read More The Prophet’s Dictation of the Qur’an and Zaid

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