Hadith 97

(The book) ‘Al Amaali’ of Al the Sheykh Al Tusi – a group, from Abu Al Mufazzal, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim Bin Zakariya, Abbad Bin Yaqoub, from Matar Bin Arqam, from Al-Hassan Bin Amro Al Fuqeymi, from Safwan Bin Qabeysa, from Al Haris Bin Suweyd, from Abdullah Bin Masoud who said, ‘Seventy Chapters from the Quran were read out to the Prophet-as. I took these from his-saww mouth while Zayd with the two forelocks (compiler of current version of the Quran) was playing with the boys, and I read the rest’ (or said, ‘remainder’) of the Quran to best of this community and their most adjudicating of them after their Prophet-saww, Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, may the Salawaat of Allah-azwj be upon him-asws’’. [123]
I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘The Sheykh Al Mufeed, may Allah-azwj Mercy him, was asked questions of the secrets, what his word, may Allah-azwj permanently Guard him, was regarding the Quran, is it what is between the two covers which is in hands of the people, or has anything been lost from what Allah-azwj the Exalted Revealed unto His-azwj Prophet-saww or not, and is it what Amir Al-Momineen-asws, may the greeting be upon him-asws, had collected, or what Usman had collected based upon what the opponents are mentioning. The answer, ‘That which is between the two covers of the Quran, entirety of it is Speech of Allah-azwj the Exalted and His-azwj Revelation, and there isn’t anything in it from the speech or mortals, and remainder of what Allah-azwj the Exalted Revealed as Quran, in the view of the preservers of the Law, the guarders of the rulings, nothing from it has been wasted, and even though the one who collected what is between the two covers did not make it in total of what he collected, for the reasons leading to that, from it is his deficiency of understanding part of it, and from it is what he had doubted in it, and from it is what de had deliberately excluded, and from it is what he had deliberately thrown out from it. And Amir Al-Momineen-asws had collected the Revealed Quran, from its beginning to its end, and compiled it in accordance to what obliged from its compilation, so he-asws advanced the Meccan over the Medinite, and the Abrogated over the Abrogating, and placed all things from it in its right (rightful place). For that (reason), Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad Al-Sadiq-asws said: ‘But, by Allah-azwj! If the Quran were to be read just as it had been Revealed, you would have found us-asws Named in it just as the ones before us-asws have been Named’. And he-asws said: ‘The Quran has been Revealed as four quarters – a quarter is regarding us-asws, and a quarter is regarding our-asws enemies, and a quarter is stories and examples, and a quarter is judgments and rulings, and for us-asws, People-asws of the Household, are merits of the Quran’’. Detail – However, the report has been authentically narrated from our Imams-asws that they-asws instructed us to recite what is between the two covers, without adding to it or subtracting from it until the rise of Al-Qaim-ajfj, who will recite the Quran to the people as Revealed by Allah-azwj, and Amir Al-Momineen-asws had compiled it. And rather they-asws have prohibited us from reciting anything other than what the Ahadeeth have referred to of the distortion increasing upon what is affirmed in the Quran because these have not come to us upon the continuity, and rather these have come as singular, and the individuals may make mistakes in what they transmit, and because when the person reads what opposes what is between the two covers he is deluding himself with people of the opposition, and the tyrants will be allured by him, and he is exposing himself to the destruction. Thus, they-asws forbid us from reciting the Quran differently to what is affirmed between the two covers due to what we have mentioned’. Detail – If the speaker were to say, ‘How can the word be correct that which is between the two covers is the Speech of Allah-azwj the Exalted upon the reality without increase nor reduction