Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt | thebereancall.org

Hunt, Dave

Nuggets from “Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations” by Dave Hunt

In contrast to the thousands of ancient manuscripts we have for the Bible, the Qur’an was taken down on palm leaves, sticks, stones, bark, bones, and anything available when Muhammad began to recite. Some revelations were recalled by memory with nothing in writing to support them. Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, said that more than one hundred verses were missing from one chapter alone, having been eaten by domestic animals while in her possession.

The four Caliphs who immediately succeeded Muhammad are called the “rightly guided Caliphs.” The Qur’an (which was “revealed” over a period of sixteen years) was not compiled in Muhammad’s lifetime but many years later under Uthman Ibn Affan, the third of these four. When it was proposed to Abu Bakr, Muhammad’s father-in-law and first successor, that he put together an official version of the Qur’an, he objected because Muhammad had said nothing about doing so. Some who had memorized the Qur’an during Muhammad’s lifetime protested that Uthman’s version was not correct. He answered these sincere concerns by having all rival copies destroyed.