This is a multi lecture series by Dr Shehzad Saleem, Fellow Al-Mawrid, for serious students of the Qur'an. It is based on his fifteen year research in which he has revisited some intriguing areas of the collection and transmission history of the Qur’an. He has attempted to critically evaluate the traditional narratives and accounts and tried to re-construct the history of the Qur’an on the basis of established historical sources.
A narrative informs us that ‘Uthman (rta) exercised his own judgement in placing Surah Anfal (8) and Surah Tawbah (9) together when the Qur’an was written in his times; since he had no guidance regarding this from the Prophet (sws), he considered them to be a single surah because of similarity of the topics of both surahs. In this episode, Dr Shehzad Saleem critically analyzes the text and chain of narration of this narrative.