LET ME TURN THE TABLES!: October 2011

No. of Surahs in the Mushaf of Ibn Mas’ud

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده و الصلاة و السلام على من لا نبي بعده و على آله و أصحابه أجمعين</div>
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You will never find a Christian missionary talking about the preservation of Holy Qur’an and then failing to come up with issue of the surahs missing from Ibn Mas’ud’s mushaf. </div>
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<u>Surahs missing in Ibn Mas’ud’s Mushaf</u>: </div>
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It is said that Ibn Mas’ud’s mushaf (codex) did not have three surahs, <i>al-Fatiha</i> and<i> al-mu’awwazatayn</i> (al-Falaq and al-Nas) i.e. Nos. 1, 113 & 114. (See al-Ittiqan 1/270 al-Haiyaal-Misriya, Cairo, 1974)</div>
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