al-Inaya bil-Quran al-Karim fi al-Ahd al-Nabawi al-Sharif
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al-Inaya bil-Quran al-Karim fi al-Ahd al-Nabawi al-Sharif (Care for the Holy Qur'an in the Noble Prophetic Era) is a treatise by Yusuf al-Hati examining the attention, memorization, and preservation accorded to the Quran during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions . It was prepared as a research paper for the symposium titled Inayat al-Mamlaka al-Arabiyya al-Saudiyya bil-Quran al-Karim wa-Ulumih ("The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Care for the Holy Qur'an and Its Sciences"), organized by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran in Medina .
Scope and Structure
The book is structured into an introduction and two main chapters :
- Introduction: Outlines the status of the Quran and the purpose of the study in gathering evidences of Quranic preservation in the prophetic period .
- Chapter One (Hawl al-Quran al-Karim): Discusses general foundational topics, including the technical definition of the Quran, the distinctions between the Quran, hadith qudsi, and prophetic hadith, the general virtues of the Quran and specific surahs, the social and individual impact of its recitation, as well as profiles of the scribes of revelation and leading reciters among the Companions .
- Chapter Two (Inayat al-Nabi bil-Quran al-Karim): Details the Prophet's personal devotion to the text, including his eagerness to receive and memorize revelation from Gabriel, his directives commanding the Companions to memorize it and guard it against being forgotten, and his instructions regarding beautifying the voice during recitation .
Method and Sources
The author relied primarily on Quranic verses and hadiths, aiming to cite sound evidence for each topic rather than exhaustively compiling every variant transmission path . In the main body of the research, he restricted himself to authentic (sahih) narrations—such as those in Sahih al-Bukhari—while noting that a few narrations cited toward the end of the study reach the grade of hasan (fair) through their collective chains . For biographical information on the Companions who transcribed or memorized the Quran, the author quoted directly from al-Dhahabi's Siyar A'lam al-Nubala and Ibn Hajar's al-Isaba fi Tamyiz al-Sahaba .
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