Unanimous Agreement of Scholars?

The other four references, which were mentioned by Dr. Khalifa as support for his claim, all quote or rely on one or more of the h adeeth narrations from S a h ee h al-Bukhaaree and other h adeeth works, and comment on them. For example, Khalifa includes in his list the 16th century classic on Qur’aanic disciplines, al-Itqaan fee ‘Uloom al-Qur’aan. Its author, ‘Abdur-Rahmaan as-Suyootee, included in his commentary on the previously mentioned h adeeth collected by Imaam al-Bukhaaree a quote from another great scholar of his time, “(Aboo Shaamah) said that their intention was to insure that only that which was written in the Prophet’s (r) presence was collected and not only that which was memorized. Because of that, he (Zayd) said the following concerning the end of Soorah at-Tawbah, ‘I did not find it with anyone else.’ That is, he did not find it written with anyone else, because memory alone was not considered sufficient without written support.”[102]

In a more recent work, the Lebanese h adeeth scholar, Dr. Sub h ee a s - S aali h, made the following comment on the account in S a h ee h al-Bukhaaree, “… Zayd’s statement that he only found the end of Soorah at-Tawbah with Aboo Khuzaymah al-An s aaree might present a problem for the reader. However, the problem is quickly resolved when the reader learns that Zayd meant that he only found it written with Aboo Khuzaymah, which was sufficient for it to be accepted, as many Companions of the Prophet (r) had memorized it and so had Zayd. He only wanted to confirm what was memorized by what was written as a precautionary measure. That was also the method that he followed in collecting the rest of the Qur’aan as requested by Aboo Bakr. There had to be two confirming sources for a verse or group of verses to be accepted: a memorized source and a written source... Zayd’s statement, ‘I only found it with Aboo Khuzaymah’ does not in any way imply that a portion of the Qur’aan was recorded on the basis of a single source, because Zayd had heard it before and knew its location...”[103]

Hence, Dr. Rashad Khalifa’s claim that both early and modern scholars who wrote on the collection of the Qur’aan are unanimously agreed that the last two verses of Soorah at-Tawbah (9) are the only verses in the Qur’aan that failed to meet the criterion of source multiplicity is totally false. Not only is it not unanimous, but also it is non-existent among authoritative works, past or present, written by Muslim scholars.

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