Where is the original Qur’an? As famously admitted by top Islamic scholars like Dr Yasir Qhadi and Dr Shabir Ally, there are “HOLES in the Standard (traditional) Islamic Narrative” of the perfect preservation of the Qur’an from Day ONE. Unfortunately Muslim scholars deliberately hide this from unsuspecting Muslims who continue to ignorantly believe in the myth of the perfect preservation of the Qur’an from day 1.
In other words: the Qur’an Muslims have today is not word for word the same as the one said to be written by Muhammad’s companions.
Islam has no complete manuscript of the Qur’an from the first hundred years of Islam. In other words Islam has no complete manuscript before 750.
There is no complete manuscript of the Qur’an from the time of Uthman.
The earliest but incomplete Birmingham manuscript (only parts of Surahs 18-20) of the Qur’an has many, many variations. Earlier manuscripts of the Qur’an also only had consonants but no vowels. Vowels seem to have been added in later manuscripts. Uthman burnt some chapters and a goat, according to Aisha, ate another chapter (the chapter on breast feeding adult men???:
Sahih Muslim 1453 a:
‘ A’isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Sahla bint Suhail came to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be eupon him) and said:
Messengerof Allah, I see on the face of Abu Hudhaifa (signs of disgust) on entering of Salim (who is an ally) into (our house), whereupon Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) said: Suckle him. She said: How can I suckle him as he is a grown-up man? Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) smiled and said: I already know that he is a young man ‘Amr has made this addition in his narration that he participated in the Battle of Badr and in the narration of Ibn ‘Umar (the words are): Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) laughed.
Sahih Muslim 1453 b
‘A’isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hadhaifa, lived with him and his family in their house. She (i. e. the daughter of Suhail came to Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) and said:
Salim has attained (purbety) as men attain, and he understands what they understand, and he enters our house freely, I, however, perceive that something (rankles) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) said to her: Suckle him and you would become unlawful for him, and (the rankling) which Abu Hudhaifa feels in his heart will disappear. She returned and said: So I suckled him, and what (was there) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa disappeared.
The New Testament, on the other hand, has been preserved in more manuscripts (before, during and after the 7th century) than any other ancient work of literature, with over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts catalogued, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.
Dating from between 100 and 160 CE, the Papyrus P52 , a fragment from a papyrus codex written in Greek, is generally accepted as the earliest extant record of a canonical New Testament text. The front of the fragment (recto) contains lines from the Gospel of John.
1. Watch the admission to the HOLES in the Standard Islamic Narrative from Islamic scholars:
https://youtu.be/vstGbZkjUcw
2. BREAST FEEDING OF ADULT MEN short video (MUST WATCH): https://youtu.be/DOzwbIVmAaA
3. Earliest manuscripts of the Qur’an. https://youtu.be/HxFsaJy003Y