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mentioned in the traditions (Fath al-Bārī, Vol. 9, p. 19): 1. . Zaid bin Thabit 2. . Ubayy ibn Ka'b 3. 'Abdullah bin Sa'd bin Abi Sarh 4. . Zubair bin al-'Awwām 5. . Lidim to ono oi 6. 7. 8. 9. . Khalid bin Sa‘īd bin al-‘Ās. Abān bin Sa'id bin al-‘Ās. Hanzala bin al-Rabi' al-Asadī. Mu'aiqib bin Abi Fățima ‘Abdullah bin Arqam al-Zuhri. Shurahbil bin Hasana 'Abdullah bin Rawāḥa 10. 11. 12. . Abu Bakr 13. 'Umar 14. 'Uthman 15. 'Alī sa. Whenever the Holy Prophet™ received a revelation, he would send for one of these persons and dictate to him the text of the revelation he had received. . A very distinctive feature of the Holy Qur'an is that it contains a Divine guarantee for its perpetual preservation. God Almighty says in the Holy Qur'ān: إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُوْنَ ) innā naḥnu nazzalnadhdhikra wa innā lahū la ḥāfizūn. We sent down this book and verily We shall safeguard it. (15:10). As a result of this guarantee, the text of the Holy Qur'ān has remained unchanged for more than fourteen hundred years. . Some More Facts About the Holy Qur'an. First Qur'ānic revelation was Surah Al-'Alaq, verses 2-5. . Last Qur'ānic revelation was Surah Al-Baqarah, verse 282, or Surah Al-Ma'idah, verse 4. . The total number of letters in the Holy Qur'an is 323,760. . The total number of words in the Holy Qur'an is 86,430. . The number of Ruku' in the Holy Qur'an is 540. . The number of places of Sajdah Tilawat (prostration during recitation) is fifteen. 16