– So we're actually going to show you a little clip
by which someone uses this argument to try
and poke holes into the idea that the Quran
was agreed upon and confirmed by all the companions
during the time of Uthman.
– And when we go back to Ibn Mas'ood himself
we find that he wasn't treated much better.
In fact he was probably treated a bit worse.
– Very interesting.
– Ibn Mas'ood was one of the former scholars of the companions
and one of the earliest scribes of the Quran
and sahabi has great weight amongst the scholars of the sahaba.
And saiyng Abdullah Ibn Mas'ood رضي الله
he objecting to the appointment of Zaid bin Thabit
is a natural response I guess in any scholarly tradition
where a scholar disagrees with the appointment
of another scholar to a particular role
and that's how it's understood and always has been,
so there's no problem in that objection
and he's entitled to his opinion.
As for saying Abdullah Ibn Mas'ood instructing the people of Kufa
to hold on to their private Masaahif,
initially he was not convinced of saying Uthman's reasonings
that we mentioned earlier,
of course Uthman was looking into the future
and this is also natural and initially when Umar رضي الله عنه was suggested to say Abu Bakr
in the first compilation that let us compile the Quran
in one place Abu Bakr wasn't comfortable with the idea.
He saw Umar insights,
he was convinced, then they called Thabit,
against bin Thabit he was not convinced of the idea initially,
after some convincing he also came around to their opinion,
and their position and the committee was appointed
and he began to compile the Quran.
Once again in the initial that same objection to said Uthman رضي الله عنه process and procedure
initially was recorded of Abdullah Ibn Masood رضي الله عنه
and eventually Abdullah Ibn Masood who came around to agree with Uthman رضي الله عنه
and his compilation of the mushaf and we know this because all of the chains
of transmission of the Quran that we have,
go through Abdullah Ibn Masood.
In addition to that Ali رضي الله عنه
informs us some people who wanted to speak negatively about saying Uthman رضي الله عنه
they said of him that he burnt the Masaahif
so he said – Do not object to Uthman رضي الله عنه
in this way because he only did that with the agreements
of all of the companions and included it in them Abdullah Ibn Masood
and had this issue been continued to be an issue,
then we most certainly would have heard of it
from the generations of the companions
who were known to speak their minds and stand by their positions
as is the case with the Tabi'un.
This was not a community who shied away from the truth
and standing up for what they believed was right
and any study of the early muslim community cursory,
look at the early muslim community will see that glaringly obvious.
– And this was done publicly right?
So the compilation of the Quran during the time of Uthman,
during the time of Abu Bakr had a committee,
it wasn't just Zaid bin Thabit.
– Absolutely.
– And it wasn't just Uthman and there were other sahabi directly involved
and it was known what was happening, it wasn't like this was done behind closed doors
and no one had access.
– It was a very public process,
it was the announcement was made in the first compilation as well as the second compilation,
that anyone who has any verses of the Quran
that they have written and recorded in the time of the Prophet ﷺ
come forward and in the masjid of the Medina,
they would come forward with their verses, with their evidences, with their witnesses,
absolutely very public affair and that's why I said Abdullah Ibn Masood's
objection is a public objection.
And if anything that shows us that this was not something done behind closed doors
but rather it was in a very open
and public manner perhaps one of the striking evidences for this
is the fact that the claims about Abdullah Ibn Masood
having his own Mushaf that was different to mushaf of Uthman
we don't have any Mushafs surviving among us, even those who reported these reports
didn't have the Mushaf in front of them but rather were narrating about
the incidents that occurred in the time of Abdullah Ibn Masood
so all evidence points towards the fact that even Abdullah Ibn Masood burnt his own Masahif eventually
when he came around to the opinion of saying Uthman Ibn Affan.
– And as you mentioned that even Masood's students
are reciting the same Quran that we have today.
– So all of the students Abdullah Ibn Masood
as I said the trains of transmission of the Quran that we have with us today
all goes to Abdullah Ibn Masood.
To suggest that that outweighs
a report that is explainable undermines thousands of reports that are definitive is an injustice.
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