Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 243
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muḥammad Mustafa sa ra whether at home or in the company of his Companions", he would pass through an extraordinary condition which would cause him to sweat profusely. Immediately after receiving the revelation he would call for one of the scribes and dictate the revelation to him. . Sa. The Divine revelations were committed to memory and also written down by scribes appointed by the Holy Prophet. He himself indicated the arrangement of verses and chapters in the Qur'an, as we find it today. So the entire text of the Holy Qur'an was written on bark, leaves, bones, etc. , during the lifetime of the Holy Prophet sa sa. As soon as a revelation was received by the Holy Prophet it was recorded in writing from his dictation. A number of persons are known to have been employed by the Holy Prophet for this purpose. Of these the names of the following fifteen have been mentioned in the traditions. sa (Fath al-Bari, Hafiz Ibni Hajr, Vol. 9, p. 19): 1. . Zaid bin Thabit 2. . Ubayy ibn Ka'b 3. 'Abdullah bin Sa'd bin Abi Sarḥ 4. . Zubair bin al-'Awwām 5. . Khalid bin Sa'īd bin al-‘Ās 6. . Abān bin Sa'id bin al-‘Ās 7. . Hanzalā bin al-Rabi' al-Asadi 8. 9. . Mu'aiqib bin Abi Fatimah 'Abdullah bin Arqam al-Zuhri 10. Shurahbil bin Hasana 11. 'Abdullah bin Rawahah 12. . Abū Bakr 13. 'Umar 14. 'Uthmān 15. 'Ali 243