the word Quran mean The recited book [not the written book] ie. Quran is passed vocally from authentic certified reciters to another by memorising it the prophet reviewed his recitation before the archangel Gibrail once a year and twice in the year he died
the prophet reviewed the memorization of many of his companions and certified them Quran was written during prophet Muhammad PBUH life, and he assigned that job to "Kuttab alwahi" among his companions many of them have complete copies of Quran Quran was collected from what was already written into a single hard covered book during Abu Bakir [r] time as he choose Zaid the one who the prophet made him the chief of the "Kuttab alwahi". Zaid [r] did not accomplish the mission in secret instead he collected every single leaflet and tablet already written during prophet time before everybody and he compared what is written to what the companions already memorize and that was done before everyone's eyes and the word Mus-haf means the hard covered book that first copy is called the al Mus-haf alimam and in times of othman [r] (the one who do tahajud every night reciting the whole Quran in one Raka) he ordered the same "Kuttab alwahi" [assigned by prophet Muhammad PBUH] to make mass copies of al Mus-haf alimam to send them to each city each is called Mus-haf al-amsar [plural masahif al-amsar] the calligraphy art style was ancient Kufi style and it was written with special care to hold all the authentic Qira' a [ie. the recitation styles which were approved by prophet Muhammad] for a Qira'a to be authentic there are some conditions like 1. it should match the Othmani written script 2. it should be mutawatir ie. passed from prophet Muhammad vocally into so many companions and from them into so many followers forming a parallel narration tree each node was certified and trusted [parallel means that it's not possible for them to conspire on faking it] later some recitations hints were added scholars refused the idea of adding the teaching hints to the original masahif and said that's only permissible only for teaching purpose so those hints were added with ink in a different color [it was red] they put red dots above and below letters to indicate harakat but keeping Quran text in back ink ...etc. nowadays we use black ink for both Quran and hints, but we distinguish hints with diacritics and with superscript and subscript and dots and hamzaz [and that's why many hamzas are floating on some letters without naberah] so even if you got a mus-haf hinted with Hafs Qiraa, you still can get the Warsh Qiraa by ignoring the hints I mentioned above _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
