Al-Zuhri's Weak Narration Debunked: No, the Quran Was Never Lost or Incomplete

This is a series of responses to the doubts of Christians and Shiite Rafidis about the Holy Quran.

They said that a lot of the Holy Quran has been lost!!

Abu al-Rabi’ narrated: Ibn Wahb informed us: Yunus informed me, on the authority of Ibn Shihab, who said: “It has reached us that a large portion of the Qur’an was revealed, and its scholars were killed on the day of Yamamah, those who had memorized it, so it was not known after them and it was not written down. Then when Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman collected the Qur’an, it was not found with anyone after them…”

Their evidence was based on the words of Al-Zuhri: “It has reached us that much of the Qur’an was revealed, but its scholars were killed on the day of Yamamah, those who had memorized it, so it was not known after them and it was not written down.”

Muslims do not accept in their religion anything but an authentic hadith that meets five conditions:

1. Bond connection
2. The justice of the narrators
3. Controlling the narrators
4. Absence of anomaly
5. Absence of cause

The authentic hadith is the hadith with a chain of transmission that is connected by the transmission of a just and accurate person from a just and accurate person to the end, and it is not anomalous or defective.

In this narration, Al-Zuhri says, “It has reached us!” — Who told Al-Zuhri this? We don’t know! Is he trustworthy or not, is he honest or a liar? We don’t know!

Yahya bin Saeed Al-Qattan said: Al-Zuhri’s mursal is worse than the mursal of others, because he is a hafiz, and he names everything he is able to name, and he only leaves out those he does not like to name.

Al-Zuhri’s transmission is nothing, because we find him narrating on the authority of Sulayman ibn Arqam.

Al-Zuhri’s mursal hadiths are among the weakest mursal hadiths.

The mursal hadiths of al-Zuhri are weak. Yahya al-Qattan did not consider the mursal hadiths of al-Zuhri and Qatadah to be anything, and he said: It is like the wind.

Dr. Muhibb al-Din said: Its chain of transmission is authentic to al-Zuhri and the trace is from his reports — indicating its weakness, as scholars of hadith do not accept the mursal and reports of Al-Zuhri.

The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, left behind nothing after his death except what is between the two covers.

Shaddad ibn Maqil said to Ibn Abbas: Did the Prophet leave anything behind? He said: He left nothing but what was between the two covers. We then went to Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah and asked him — He said: He left nothing but what is between the two covers.

This translation is in response to those who claimed that much of the Qur’an was lost because its bearers were lost.

God promised the nation that He will preserve this noble book and nothing of it will ever be lost.

And indeed, it is a noble Book. Falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it. It is sent down by One Full of Wisdom, Worthy of Praise.

Our Book is not like the Book of others, the Jews and Christians!

The oldest copies of the four Gospels that we have date back to the third century. As for the original copies, they appear to have been written between 60 and 120 AD, and then after being written over two centuries, they were subject to errors in transmission, and perhaps they were also subject to deliberate distortion intended to reconcile them with the sect to which the copyist belonged or its purposes.

There is a great deal of contradiction between some of the Gospels and others, and they contain historical points of questionable authenticity, and many stories that arouse suspicion. Many incidents seem to have been deliberately placed to prove the fulfillment of prophecies in the Old Testament, and many passages may have been intended to provide a historical basis for a later doctrine of the Church or a ritual of its rites.