"Hajjaj “gathered together every single copy” of the Qur’an he could find “and caused to be omitted from the text a great many passages... Then Hajjaj “called in and destroyed all the preceding copies, even as Uthman had done before him.”... “the enmity subsisting between Ali and Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman is well known; now each of these entered in the text whatever favored his own claims, and left out what was otherwise. How, then, can we distinguish between the genuine and the counterfeit?”.... “And what about the losses caused by Hajjaj? […] How can we make an arbiter as to the Book of God a man who never ceased to play into the hands of the Umayyads whenever he found opportunity?”"
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al-Kindi, quoted in : Mingana, “The Transmission of the Koran,” 109. The Apology of al-Kindy Written at the Court of al-Mamun circa, a.d. 830 (quoted in Mingana, “The Transmission of the Koran,” 109). quoted in Did muhammad exist? : an inquiry into islam’s obscure origins. (2012). . ISI Books. March 1 2024
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