Hadith 97

, while you (Shias) are reporting from the Imams-asws that they-asws were reading: You are the best of the Imams raised up for the people; [3: 110], And like that, We Made you as intermediary Imams [2: 143], They are asking you for the Anfaal [8: 1], and this is different to what is in the Quran which is in hands of the people? ’
It will be said to him, ‘The answer about this has passed, and it is, ‘The Ahadeeth which have come with that are solitary. These cannot cut upon Allah-azwj the Exalted with its correctness. For that reason, we have paused in it and we cannot turn away from what is apparent in the Quran based upon what we have been instructed with what it states, along with that it cannot be denied that the recitation has come based upon two perspective of Revelation – one of these is what the Quran contains, and the second is what the Ahadeeth have come with, like what our adversaries have acknowledged with of the Revelation of the Quran being upon various aspects. From that are Words of the Exalted: And he is not a withholder of the unseen [81: 24], intending accusing them; and with the other recitation: And he is not a withholder of the unseen [81: 24], intending by it being miserly. And like His-azwj Words: Gardens of Eden, the rivers flow from beneath it, [20: 76], based upon a recitation, while upon another recitation, the rivers flow beneath it, and approximate to Words of the Exalted: ‘These are two magicians [20: 63], while in another recitation, These two are both magicians, and what resembles that from what its numbers are numerous and the answer would be lengthy in proving it, and in what we have mention is sufficiency, if Allah-azwj the Exalted so Desires’. I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘It is reported by Al-Bukhari and Al-Tirmizi in their ‘Saheeh’, and it is mentioned in ‘Jamiat Al-Asoul’ in the letter ‘Ta’ in chapter on arrangement of the Quran and its compilation, and its collection, from Zayd Bin Sabit who said, ‘Abu Bakr sent for me after the killing of the people of Yamama and Umar was seated in his presence. Abu Bakr said, ‘Umar came to me and said, ‘The killing on the day of Yamama has resulted in loss of readers of the Quran, and I fear that the killing would result is loss of readers in all places so a lot of Quran would be gone (lost), and I have viewed that you should go and collect the Quran! ’
He said, ‘I said to Umar, ‘And how can I do something Rasool-Allah-saww had not done? ’ Umar said, ‘By Allah-azwj, it is good! ’ He did not cease to reiterate to me regarding that until Allah-azwj Expanded my chest for that which He-azwj had Expanded the chest of Umar, and I viewed that which Umar had viewed’. Zayd said, ‘Abu Bakr said to me, ‘You are a young man, an intellectual. We cannot accuse you. You used to write the Revelation for Rasool-Allah-saww, so pursue the Quran and collect it! ’
Zayd said, ‘By Allah-azwj! If they had encumbered me to move a mountain from the mountains, it would not have been heavier upon me than what they had ordered me with of collecting the Quran’. He (Zayd) said, ‘I said, ‘How can you two do something Rasool-Allah-saww did not do? ’ Abu Bakr said, ‘By Allah-azwj, it is good! ’
He said, ‘Abu Bakr did not cease to reiterate to me’. And in another report, ‘Umar did not cease to reiterate to me until Allah-azwj Expanded my chest for that which He-azwj had Expanded the chest of Abu Bakr’. He said, ‘I pursued the Quran to collect it from the fragments and the fragments, and the palm leaf stalks, and the materials, and chests (memories) of the men until I found ending of Surah Al Tawbah with Khuxeyma or Abu Khuzeyman Al-Ansari, I did not find it being with anyone other than him: There has come to you a Rasool from yourselves. It is grievous upon him [9: 128], ending Surah Al Bara’at’. He said, ‘The Quran was in the possession of Abu Bakr until Allah-azwj Caused him to die, then in the possession of Umar until Allah-azwj Caused him to die, then Hafsa daughter of Umar’. On the reporters said, ‘The