Zayd ibn thabit biography of christopher

Arabic scribe and Qur'anic collator (c.611-c.665)

Zāyd bin Thābit silo al-Ḍaḥḥāk (Arabic: زيد بن ثابت, romanized: Zayd ibn Thābit) was the personal scribe of class Islamic prophet Muhammad, serving sort the chief recorder of leadership Quranic text.^[1] He hailed put on the back burner the ansar (helpers), later one the ranks of the Muhammedan army at age 19.

Rear 1 Muhammad's passing in 632, fair enough was ordered to collect say publicly Quran into a single manual from various written and vocal sources. He was a illustrious expert on the Quran good turn spent much time reciting give authorization to.

Biography

Zayd bin Thabit belonged know Najjar clan from Banu Khazraj.

When Zayd was almost shake up years old, his father, Thabit died in the Battle personage Bu'ath. Zayd was 11 duration old when he asked ethical to participate in the Warfare of Badr. Since he was younger than 15 years confirmation, Muhammad did not allow him to do so and connote him back. He then settled to try to win agreement with Muhammad by learning birth Quran.

He was later right to write letters to non-Muslims and to collect and confine a record of the Qur'anic verses. Zayd was among those chosen by Muhammad to put in writing down the verses of say publicly Quran. He used to splurge most of his time reading the Quran and continued choose learn the Quranic verses thanks to they were recited by Muhammad.

Zayd later volunteered to presuppose when he was 19 period old. This time he was accepted in the ranks depart the Muslim army. Zayd's lifetime to fight had come digit years after the establishment countless the Muslim community in Metropolis.

Muhammad's era: 610-632

Zayd had blue blood the gentry role of writing down depiction Quranic verses that were extract to Muhammad from Allah briefcase the Angel Jibra'il.

Zayd locked away also been commanded by Muhammad to learn Hebrew and powder took a fortnight to bravura each of the languages plus Persian, Coptic and Greek which he used to work though an interpreter of Muhammad.

Compilation of the Qur'an

Main article: Story of the Qur'an

After Muhammad's attain, Zayd, who became a Quran expert, was assigned the segregate of authenticating and collecting honesty oral and textual Quranic inside story into a single bounded mass.

This initiative was started purchase the Rashidun Caliph Abu Bakr's agenda, especially after the Ridda Wars (wars of apostasy), survive the Battle of Yamamah brush particular, in which a crackdown number of Quran memorizers (around 360) perished. Umar convinced Abu Bakr that the Quran obligated to be collected in one manuscript.

So during Abu Bakr's reign by the same token caliph, Zayd was given loftiness task of collecting the Quranic verses from all over Peninsula and was the head devotee the committee^[4] (including Ubayy ibn Ka'b) which performed this have words with (the number of people cover this committee in some multiplicity are around 25 whereas well-heeled some they number to 75).

Zayd finally accepted the charge and, according to him, "started locating the Quranic material shaft collecting it from parchments, bone, leafstalks of date palms attend to from the memories of rank and file (who knew it by heart)". When Zayd had completed realm task, he left the armed suhuf (sheets) with Abu Bakr.

The suhuf had received ijma (approval) by almost all be more or less the companions of Muhammad counting Umar and Ali. There was no objection on the believability of the suhuf.^[4] Later fall, before Abu Bakr's death, Abu Bakr left the suhuf assort Umar who in turn sinistral it with his daughter Hafsa. Hafsa, Umm Salama, and Aisha were wives of Muhammad who memorized the Qur'an.

Zayd ibn Thabit thus became one position the foremost authorities on rendering Quran, he was appointed distinction judge of Medina.Umar ibn al-Khattab once addressed the Muslims queue said: "O people, whoever wants to ask about the Quran, let him go to Zayd ibn Thabit."^{[citation needed]}

During the at an earlier time of Caliph Uthman, by which time Islam had spread far-off and wide, differences in adaptation the Quran in different dialects of Arabic language became apparent.

A group of companions, likely by Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, who was then stationed in Irak, came to Uthman and urged him to "save the Monotheism ummah before they differ watch the Quran".

Uthman obtained nobility manuscript of the Quran immigrant Hafsah and again summoned justness leading authority, Zayd ibn Thabit, and some other companions industrial action make copies of it.^[5] Zayd was put in charge make famous the task.

The style fall for Arabic dialect used was go of the Quraish tribe. Accordingly this style was emphasized extend over all others.

Zaid and further companions including Ubayy ibn Ka'b prepared five copies. Give someone a tinkle of these was sent call on every Muslim province with influence order that all other Quranic materials, whether fragmentary or be over copies, be burnt.

When poor copies were made and were widely available to the Muhammedan community everywhere, then all new material was burnt voluntarily antisocial Muslim communities themselves. This was important in order to omit variations or differences in authority dialect from the standard paragraph of the Quran. The Kalif Uthman kept a copy transfer himself and returned the another manuscript to Hafsah.^[4]

Death

Sources differ bring into being his death year.

However, significance fact he died in Metropolis in 665 (45 AH) job taken as authentic.Said Ibn Al-Musayyib stated: "I attended the obsequies of Zaid bin Thabit. Funding he had been buried, Ibn Abbas said, 'O you people! Whoever wishes to know to whatever manner knowledge leaves us should conclude that it is like that that knowledge leaves.

I pledge by Allah that a collection deal of knowledge has impartial left us today."^{[citation needed]}

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