The Quran: Who organized it?

Question

Why are the surahs organized the way they are (from longest to shortest) and who compiled them as such? Is this a standard that all Qurans must be ordered by?

Answer 1

Alhamdolillahe, Nema is correct

Answer 2

hope this helps

http://www.irf.net/irf/dtp/dawah_tech/t1...

Answer 3

Allah organized it.

75:16 MOVE NOT thy tongue in haste, [to repeat and learn the words of the revelation:]

75:17 for, behold, it is for Us to gather it [in thy heart,] and to cause it to be read [as it ought to be read].

Answer 4

Angel Gabriel instructed Muhammad Pbuh about how to organize them, Muhammad pbuh used to tell the Sahabas where to place the verses.They all knew which Surah goes where.

Every Ramadan Gabriel used to make sure that all the verses and surahs are correct and organized.Muhammad pbuh used to recite the Quran with Gabriel every Ramadan

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@ Nema

The prophet was illiterate.Whenver a verse was  revealed, he used to memorize it and he used to tell the Sahabas to memorize it too.Sahabas used to write them down.After prophets death, the 3rd caliph Uthman compiled all the verses of the Quran in a single book.

Answer 5

The prophet (pbuh) didn't write down the quran, he was illiterate. He memorized it

Answer 6

Well The Prophet Mouhammad (saw) Wrote the Quran from the messages sent from Allah. So Basically he orginized it i guess..

Answer 7

During the life of the Prophet (saas) (570-632 CE)

    * The Prophet (saas) used to recite the Qur'an before angel Jibreel (Gabriel) once every Ramadan, but he recited it twice (in the same order we have today) in the last Ramadan before his death. Jibreel also taught the Prophet (saas) the seven modes of recitation.

    * Each verse received was recited by the Prophet, and its location relative to other verses and surahs was identified by him.

    * The verses were written by scribes, selected by the Prophet, on any suitable object - the leaves of trees, pieces of wood, parchment or leather, flat stones, and shoulder blades. Scribes included Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Mu'awiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan, Ubey Ibn Ka'ab, Zayed Ibn Thabit.

    * Some of the companions wrote the Qur'an for their own use.

    * Several hundred companions memorized the Qur'an by heart.

During the caliphate of Abu Bakr (632-634 CE)

    * Umar Ibn Al-Khattab urged Abu Bakr to preserve and compile the Qur'an. This was prompted after the battle of Yamamah, where heavy casualties were suffered among the reciters who memorized the Qur'an.

    * Abu Bakr entrusted Zayed Ibn Thabit with the task of collecting the Qur'an. Zayed had been present during the last recitation of the Qur'an by the Prophet to Angel Jibreel (Gabriel).

    * Zayed, with the help of the companions who memorized and wrote verses of the Qur'an, accomplished the task and handed Abu Bakr the first authenticated copy of the Qur'an. The copy was kept in the residence of Hafsah, daughter of Umar and wife of the Prophet.

During the caliphate of Uthman (644-656 CE)

    * Uthman ordered Zayed Ibn Thabit, Abdullah Ibn Al Zubayr, Saeed Ibn Al-Aas, and Abdur-Rahman Ibn Harith Ibn Hisham to make perfect copies of the authenticated copy kept with Hafsa. This was due to the rapid expansion of the Islamic state and concern about differences in recitation.

    * Copies were sent to various places in the Muslim world. The original copy was returned to Hafsa, and a copy was kept in Madinah.

Three stages of dotting and diacritization

    * Dots were put as syntactical marks by Abu Al-Aswad Al Doaly, during the time of Mu'awiya Ibn Abi Sufian (661-680 CE).

    * The letters were marked with different dotting by Nasr Ibn Asem and Hayy ibn Ya'amor, during the time of Abd Al-Malek Ibn Marawan (685-705 CE).

    * A complete system of diacritical marks (damma, fataha, kasra) was invented by Al Khaleel Ibn Ahmad Al Faraheedy (d. 786 CE).

Qur'an is divided into thirty equal divisions, which are called juz in Arabic. There are 114 chapters, of varying length. The longest chapter is Al-Baqarah consisting of 286 verses and the shortest chapter is AlKawthar consisting of three verses!

Answer 8

The prophet Mohammad invented it, in an attempt (successful one) to control the people, and get what he wanted.

Answer 9

The Noble Quran - Contradictions lies, History of Preservation, Worship, and Prophecies and Miracles:

The sections here are:

1-  Errors, Contradictions, Satanic verses?  Also, History and Preservation.

2-  Differences with the Bible.

3-  The Noble Quran.

4-  Worship.

5-  Prophecies.

6-  Miracles.





1-  Errors, Contradictions, and Satanic verses?  Also, History and Preservation:

Responses to all of the so-called "Errors" in the Noble Quran.

Responses to the "Textual Variants" lies in the Noble Quran.  History of the Noble Quran's compilation and preservation with captured images of some earliest Manuscripts that date all the way back to the Prophet's first disciples.

Responses to the so-called "Incoherence" in the Noble Quran.

The Eloquence and the Miracle of the Noble Quran's Words, Text and Style.

Introduction to the Noble Quran.  History, preservation and other topics.

Rebuttal to Khaled on the Noble Quran's Preservation.

The disagreement between the Noble Quran and Bible about some historical events does not disprove Islam.

**** The LIE of the "SATANIC VERSES" fabricated against the Noble Quran!!  Also, what about satan's temptations to the Bible's Prophets?



Did the Noble Quran really say that the sun sets and rises on Murky Spring on earth?

Does the Hadith really contain scientific errors regarding the sun's rising and setting?



GOD Changing His Mind (abrogation) in the Bible.

Repetitions in the Noble Quran and the Bible.

Did the Noble Quran really plagiarize Greek Embryology?  A very nice article.

The Falsification Test of Surah Baqarah.



www.QuranSearch.Com

My official Noble Quran Search web site.

Warning against the anti-Islam missionaries of www.QuranBrowser.com!!

(click here)



Noble Quran Search in many Foreign Languages

Including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, French, and many more languages....

Also at www.QuranSearch.com!



Detailed History of the Noble Quran's Compilation and Preservation!

Captured images of some earliest Manuscripts that date back to the Prophet's first disciples!



The Ten Commandments in the Noble Quran.





2-  Differences with the Bible:

Does the Quran Say That It Is Corrupted?

Differences between the Noble Quran and Bible only prove  

Answer 10

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The Quran was revealed piecemeal, according to the needs of the time. Angel Jibrail [PBUH] brought it to the Prophet [PBUH] who would memorize it. Afterwards, it was preserved in two ways.

First, through memorization, there were a number of early Muslims who would memorize each revelation as soon as it was revealed and thus had the whole Quran memorized at the time of the final revelation. The tradition of memorizing the entire Quran still continues, and a person who does so is called a Hafize Quran.

Second, the Quran was preserved through writing. Whenever any revelation took place, it was written at once on tablets, palm branches, shorn of leaves, or animal skin. This was done primarily by Zaid bin Thabit, who was the main scribe out of the 42 scribes of the revelation. The Prophet [PBUH] set the order of the chapters under the guidance of Angel Jibrail [PBUH] and ordered his companions to maintain that order.

Abu Bakr, the first caliph of Islam, compiled the Quran, and Uthman, the third caliph, made numerous copies and sent one copy to each state capital.

Answer 11

interesting question

Answer 12

sorry..im just commenting on Nema's answer...but wasnt the Prophet illiterate?