Islam How and when was the koran compiled?

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There are no original manuscripts for any ancient or classical work, so there’s definitely not one for the Quran. The traditional accounts state that the first Caliph Abu Bakr first compiled the Quran from whatever he could find and wrote parts down from what was memorized after parts of the Quran were being lost due to memorizers of the Quran being killed as this was happening during the Ridda or Apostasy wars in Arabia, especially during the climatic Battle of Yammah. Decades later parts were being copied and sent to all corners of the Islamic empire up until the point where stuff in the Quran was being changed as people in the far reaches of the Islamic empire both Arab Muslims and non Arab converts were reciting the Quran differently depending on the region, either unknowingly or intentionally. Uthman the third Caliph a known tyrant obviously starting to get something was wrong forcefully ordered any variant manuscripts burnt and ordered the Quran to be recompiled into one single Arabic dialect the Qurayshi Arabic dialect due to it being Mohammed’s own personal dialect, of course many Muslims even important Sahaba or companions of Mohammed resisted this such as Ibn Mas’ud and Ubayy Ibn Kaab both of whom were top reciters and memorizers of the Quran and both of whom had different codex’s than each other and both of whom rejected Uthman’s codex and decided to recompile the Quran into a single codex within a single dialect all the while burning the others. That’s how we have got our modern Quran pretty much, the Qurayshi dialect itself has multiple readings (versions) or Qira’t of such as Hafs the most famous version of the Quran found in most of the Islamic world, Warsh found in the North African countries such as Morocco, and quite a few others. This is it in a simplified nutshell and this is all according to the traditional accounts or the Hadiths which are themselves very unreliable as historical sources given there late compilation, constant editing, and lack of early manuscripts. The traditional accounts aside both the authors and compilers of the Quran are anonymous, unlike Christianity’s Church Fathers, Islam’s Fathers so to speak never left us with any of their writings, we literally having nothing written down to us by the early Islamic community nor their successors, nor the successors or their successors. So we’re pretty much in the dark for the first 200 years of Islam. You can read more here on how the Quran was compiled according to traditional accounts and how it was standardized after having many meaningful variants into a single work:

The Compilation and Textual Veracity of the Quran

Even More Proof for the Quran’s Textual Corruption

Also I’d highly recommend watching Dr. Jay Smith regarding this issue, this is his YouTube channel:

PfanderFilms

He’s also done many excellent series on the Quranic manuscripts and their compilation on Al Fadi’s channel here:

YouTube
 
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