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Are there missing verses and Did a goat eat the Quran?

 


Are there missing verses and Did a goat eat the Quran?



This is the hadith used for the argument:


​​It was narrated that 'Aishah said:

“The Verse of stoning and of breastfeeding an adult ten times was revealed, and the paper was with me under my pillow. When the Messenger of Allah died, we were preoccupied with his death, and a tame sheep came in and ate it.”


  •  Sunan Ibn Majah 1944




Let's start with the “missing” stoning  and breastfeeding verses. Yes they aren't in the quran and that's because they were abrogated. They were abrogated through recitation which is cleary said in the footnotes:



“ 1: These verses were abrogated in recitation but not ruling.” 



On the same website sunnah.com it has this right under the hadith. 



Now let's talk about the 3 different type of abrogation:



Ibn Salama says:

The scholars have divided abrogation into three kinds:

1)Abrogation of the recited (verse) together with the legal ruling.

2)Abrogation of the legal ruling without the recited (verse).

3)Abrogation of the recited (verse) without the legal ruling.

  • Al-nasikh wa al-mansukh by Ibn Salama pg 5


The 2 verses were abrogated but the ruling still remained. So number 3^.



Imam Nawawi says in his commentary on Sahih Muslim: 

There is a dumma on the letter ya’a and it means that the abrogation of the five sucklings came very late until the time that the Prophet (peace be upon him) died and a few people were reciting the five sucklings verse making it part of the Qur’an for they might not have been informed of its abrogation. So when he (Muhammad peace be upon him) did inform them afterwards they stopped reciting it and formed a consensus that this verse should not be recited anymore.

  • Sharh Sahih Muslim, Kitab: Al Ridaa’, Bab: Al Tahreem Bi Khams Ridaa’aat, Commentary on hadith no.2634

As you can see the verses have been abrogated through recitation. 

Some more info:

Al  Sindi says in his commentary on Sunan Al Nisaa’i:

It is said that the five’s (verse on five sucklings) recitation has been abrogated and its abrogation came near the death of the Prophet (peace be upon him) so some people weren’t informed about it. So they used to recite it but when the Prophet (peace be upon him) died they left its recitation.

  • Sharh Sunan Al Nisaa’i, Kitab: Al Nikah, Bab: Al Qadar Allazhi Yuharrim Min Al Ridaa’aa, Commentary on Hadith no. 3255


Al Sindi says in his commentary:

The verse of stoning: Its recitation has been abrogated and its ruling still remains in effect. 

  • Sharh Sunan Ibn Majah, Kitab: Al Hudood, Bab: Al Rajam, Commentary on Hadith no. 2543



Muhammad Shams al-Haqq al-Adhim Abadi says in his commentary on Sunan Abu Dawud:

“And what this means is that the abrogation by five sucklings was revealed very late to the extent that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) died, some people were still reciting the verse of five sucklings and making it part of recited Qur’an for they were not informed about its abrogation but when they were after that, they went back on that and formed a consensus on that this verse must not be recited. And abrogation is of three types: One of them is that its ruling and recitation be abrogated just like the ten sucklings verse. And the second is that its recitation has been abrogated without its ruling just like the five sucklings verses”

  • Awn al-Ma'bud Sharh Sunan Abu Dawud, Kitab: Al Nikah, Bab: Hal Yuhharram Ma Doona Khamsa Ridaa’aat, Commentary on hadith no. 1765


Allah also talked about abrogation in the quran:

We do not abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten except that We bring forth [one] better than it or similar to it. Do you not know that Allah is over all things competent?

  • 2:106


This isn't something new. So in conclusion. Those verses were abrogated through recitation, they aren't “missing verses”. 


Now onto the goat eating the Quran part.


That part was an addition by muhammed ibn ishaq, because the same narration is mentioned in other places and it doesn't have anything about a goat or a sheep eating the Quran.

Examples:

A’isha (Allah be pleased with, her) reported that it had been revealed in the Holy Qur’an that ten clear sucklings make the marriage unlawful, then it was abrogated (and substituted) by five sucklings and Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) died and it was before that time (found) in the Holy Qur’an (and recited by the Muslims).

  • Sahih Book 8 Hadith 3421

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm from Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Amongst what was sent down of the Qur’an was ‘ten known sucklings make haram’ – then it was abrogated by ‘five known sucklings’. When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, died, it was what is now recited in the Qur’an.” Yahya said that Malik said, “One does not act on this.”

  •  Malik’s Muwatta Book 30 Hadith 17

No mention of the goat eating the Quran. Just the abrogated verses. That's proof that it was an addition by ibn ishaq. Furthermore:

The chain is da‘eef because the only one who narrated it was Muhammad ibn Ishaaq, and its text contains something odd.


  • Musasat ar-Risaalah edn (43/343)


mufti Ebrahim Desai also agrees the same:

The narration mentioned in the query is also weak. Muhammed bin Ishaq, who is considered to be a weak narrator, is present in the chain of narrators.

Besides the fact that it is a weak narration, the aayaat written on the piece of paper were not part of the Quran at that time, but they were made naskh(Abrogation) before the demise of Nabi (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), as mentioned in 5) and 6).


Al-Alusi said:

With regard to the additional material having been on a page that was kept with ‘Aa’ishah and was eaten by the tame sheep, it is a fabrication and lie

  • Rooh al-Ma‘aani (11/140) 

As you can see the sheep eating the quran was a fabricated addition. And not said by Aisha herself.


For the sake of argument let's say everything I said was false. No problem. The verse was abrogated  anyway. And these verses were memorized  by millions and were still being recited near the death of the prophet. As the hadiths in this article said. So if a goat really did eat the Quran, it wouldn't make a difference.


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