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“The Quran was revealed in Three Places”: A Critical Analysis of a Hadith about the Holy Land

October 20, 2022 by Joshua Little

In his al-ʾItqān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾân, the famous Egyptian Sunnī Hadith scholar al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) mentioned the following hadith: Al-Ṭabarānī cited [a hadith] in [his al-Muʿjam] al-Kabīr, from the transmission-path of al-Walīd b. Muslim, from ʿUfayr b. Maʿdān, from Ibn ʿĀmir, from ʾAbū ʾUmāmah, who said: “The Messenger of God said: “The Quran was revealed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hadith, History, Quran, Textual Analysis Tagged: Abbasid, Hadith, history, Holy Land, Islam, Jerusalem, Joshua Little, Levant, Prophet, Quran, Stephen Shoemaker, Syria, Umayyad

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