Saheeh al-Bukhaaree

The first of the references listed by Rashad Khalifa is the famous h adeeth collection of the 9th century C.E. known as S a h ee h al-Bukhaaree. Although Dr. Khalifa had denied the validity of h adeeths much earlier, claiming them all to be forgeries, here he stated that:

“Sahih Bukhari gives three different accounts regarding this subject.”[99]

The following is the longest and most complete of the three accounts mentioned in S a h ee h al-Bukhaaree:

Zayd ibn Thaabit said, “Aboo Bakr a s - S iddeeq sent for me just after the Battle of Yamaamah in which many of the Prophet’s companions were killed. When I came to him, I found ‘Umar ibn al-Kha tt aab sitting with him. Aboo Bakr then said to me, ‘Umar has come and told me that there were many casualties among the Qur’aan memorizers during the Battle of Yamaamah and he fears that many more of them will die on other battlefields. As a result, much of the Qur’aan may be lost. So, he has suggested to me that I order that the Qur’aan be collected in one book. I asked him how he could do something that Allaah’s messenger did not do. ‘Umar said that it was good and he kept on urging me to do it until Allaah made me realize the good in it. You (Zaid) are a wise and trustworthy young man, and you are among those who wrote down the revelation of the Qur’aan for the Messenger of Allaah (r), so go and search for the Qur’aan and collect it.’ By Allaah! If they had ordered me to shift a mountain, it would not have been a heavier task than ordering me to collect the Qur’aan. When I asked Aboo Bakr how he could do what the Messenger of Allaah (r) had not done, he told me there was good in it and persisted until Allaah made me recognize the benefit in it which he had shown Aboo Bakr and ‘Umar. So I searched for the Qur’aan and collected it from what was written on the stalks of palm leaves, stone tablets and also from those who had memorized it, until I found the last verse of Soorah at-Tawbah with Aboo Khuzaymah al-An s aaree and I did not find them with anyone else:

“Verily a Prophet from among yourselves has come to you. It grieves him that you should be injured or face difficulty... (until the end of the Soorah al-Baraa’a [100]. The complete manuscript remained with Aboo Bakr until he died, then with ‘Umar until the end of his life, and then with ‘Umar’s daughter, Haf s ah.”[101]

As is obvious from the text of above-mentioned h adeeth, there was no suspicion about the authenticity of the two verses nor is there any mention that they did not conform to any set criteria. The h adeeth only indicates the reason why the Qur’aan was collected in one book and the efforts made by the Prophet’s companion, Zayd ibn Th aabit, to gather it from all available sources.

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