all the words of Muhammad you have are in the Qur'an?
We believe the Qur'an is God's words, which Gabriel recited to Muhammad and Muhammad recited to his companions, and which then passed on by oral transmission until it was written down.
There are also collections of Hadith. There is one kind of Hadith, the Hadith Qudsi, which is Muhammad relating a direct message from God in his own words. They read, 'God said, "...".' Other Hadith are Muhammad's words (or actions, approvals, description, etc.) We believe that he was inspired in anything he said regarding religion. He did say that he was human, and that sometimes he would give his own opinion, but that when he said something was from God, then it was from God. Also, we believe that he was corrected by God if he said or did something wrong. An example of this was when he had arranged a meeting with the big shots in Quraish and was on his way to go talk to them, and a poor, blind man came to him to ask him about what he had been preaching. He frowned and told the man he was busy and hurried to his meeting that he was stressed about. Qur'an was then revealed reprimanding him for such behavior. The verses say that he should not have turned away from a person who had come SEEKING just because he wanted to influence the powerful guys. This revelation continues to be recited until today. (See Qur'an chapter 80)
Basically, we believe that anything we need for guidance was made clear.
Do Shi'ites also agree about how much of that is really his words?
(I don't know is always a respected answer
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I don't know.
In Sunni Islam, if you study the Sciences of the Qur'an, you will see that the Prophet Muhammad said that the Qur'an was revealed in seven different '
ahruf'. Early scholars debated over what was meant by this. What APPEARS to be the strongest opinion (in my opinion) is that these were 7 different dialects.... like the way I speak English is different that how someone from England or Scotland or Australia would. The words commonly used in each dialect differ as well as the pronunciation. It would be difficult to memorize in a dialect different than one's own. The Arabs too had different dialects, and it seems that the Qur'an was revealed in such a way to make it easy for different tribes who came to learn to understand it and memorize it. Tradition goes that 'Uthman feared that with the different dialects people might inadvertently add things that were not part of the Qur'an (with the excuse that it was of a different dialect), so he authorized one copy which was upon the dialect of Quraish (Muhammad's tribe).
Prior to that, students of Muhammad had spread around and started teaching what they know. There were some slight differences in what they taught (mainly in pronunciation, but with some small word differences that either had the same meaning or complementary meaning)... at some time down the road (sorry, I'm bad with history and can't remember when) Qur'an scholars began rejecting many in an extra effort to protect the Qur'an. Rule one was that any narration that didn't match up with 'Uthman's manuscript was out. Rule two had to do with Arabic grammar and such and rule three had to do with the number of narrations... like, the exact same way of reading (enunciation by enunciation.. even more particular than word by word... I mean as particular as how long do I pronounce the vowel and stuff like that) had to be transmitted through a certain number of separate chains. Anyway... today there are 10 narrations that are established as absolutely authentic (because of so many chains of narration) and 4 that are called 'rare'. These 'recitations', as they are called, go back to the differences in the 7 ahruf in which the Qur'an was revealed (dialects), but do not represent them.
Most Sunni Muslims around the world recite the Qur'an according to the narration of Hafs which he learned from 'Aasim. But in North Africa, I think Warsh's narration is more popular.
