We are in the second year of the Hijrah. Madinah the habitation of the Prophet is buzzing with pursuit as the Muslims organise for the long step-out southwards to Badr. The noble Prophet made a terminal check of the first military forces to be mobilized under his command to pay Jihad in resistance to those who had tormented the Muslims for more years and who were still crooked on putting an end to his mission. A youth, not yet thirteen, sauntered up to the ranks. He was self-assured and alert.
He held a sword which was as long or perhaps to some extent longer than his own height. He went up to the Prophet, may God bless him and give him serenity, and said: "I dedicate myself to you, Messenger of God. Permit me to be with you and to conflict the opposition of God under your banner." The noble Prophet studied him with adoration and patted his shoulder with doting tenderness. He commended him for his valour but turned down to procure him because he was still too young. The youth, Zayd ibn Thabit, turned and sauntered away, dejected and sad. As he sauntered, in slow and evaluated steps, he fastened his sword in the ground as a indication of his disappointment. He was rejected the award of accompanying the Prophet on his first campaign. Behind him was his mother, an-Nawar bint Malik. She sensed evenly dejected and sad. She had heartfelt hoped to observe her youthful teenager depart with the military forces of mujahidin and to be with the Prophet at this most critical time. One year afterwards, as training were continuing for the second find with the Quraysh which took position at Uhud, a gathering of Muslim teenagers bearing arms of assorted varieties - swords, spears, bows and missiles and guards - drew close to the Prophet. They were looking for to be procured in any scope for in the Muslim ranks. Some of them, like Rafi ibn Khadij and Samurah ibn Jundub, who were tough and wellbuilt for their age and who shown clearly their skills to wrestle and handle tools for fighting, were given go-ahead by the Prophet to unite the Muslim forces. Others like Abdullah the teenager of Umar and Zayd ibn Thabit were still deliberated by the Prophet to be too youthful and immature to fight. He agreed though to analyze them for a afterwards campaign. It was only at the Battle of the Ditch when Zayd was about sixteen years aged that he was at last sanctioned to withstand arms in vindication of the Muslim community. Although Zayd was intense to join in engagements, it is not as a warrior that he is remembered. After his rejection for the Badr operation, he agreed to the item then that he was too youthful to conflict in greatest battles. His watchful psyche turned to other paddocks of service, which had no binding with age and which could carry him nearer to the Prophet, serenity be on him. He deliberated the paddock of learning and in actual of memorizing the Quran. He referred the thought to his mother. She was enthralled and straight away made tries to have his aim realized. An-Nuwar chatted to some men of the Ansar about the youth's wish for and they in turn broached the subject with the Prophet, saying: "O Messenger of Allah, our teenager Zayd ibn Thabit has memorized seventeen surahs of the Book of Allah and recites them as in the right way as they were uncovered to you. In augmentation to that he is stars reading and writing. It is in this paddock of service that he wishes for to be close to you. Listen to him if you will." The Prophet, serenity be on him, perceived to Zayd reciting some surahs he had memorized. His recitation was clear and gorgeous and his finishes and breaks showed very distinctly that he comprehended well what he recited. The Prophet was pleased. Indeed he encountered that Zayd's skills surpassed the commendation he had been bestowed by his relatives. The Prophet then set him a task which demanded smartness, talent and persistence.
"Zayd, study the drafting of the Jews for me," instructed the Prophet. "At your lead, Messenger of Allah," responded Zayd who set about studying Hebrew with enthusiasm. He became somewhat proficient in the terminology and drafted it for the Prophet when he desired to convey with the Jews. Zayd in addition read and transformed from Hebrew when the Jews drafted to the Prophet. The Prophet instructed him to study Syriac in addition and this he did. Zayd hence came to put on the valued function of an interpreter for the Prophet in his dealings with non-Arabic chatting peoples.
Zayd's exuberance and talent were obvious. When the Prophet sensed self-assured of his faithfulness in the set free of responsibilities and the care, precision and appreciating with which he brought out duties, he entrusted Zayd with the weighty liability of transcription the Divine revelation.
When any part of the Quran was uncovered to the Prophet, he often conveyed for Zayd and instructed him to carry the drafting elements, "the parchment, the ink-pot and the scapula", and draft the revelation. Zayd was not the only one who carried on as a scribe for the Prophet. One source has registered forty-eight people who employed to draft for him. Zayd was very well-known amid them. He did not only draft but as long as the Prophet's time he accumulated portions of the Quran that were typed down by other people and coordinated these under the supervision of the Prophet. He is stated to have said:
"We employed to collect the Quran from tiny manuscripts in the existence of the Prophet." In this way, Zayd qualified the Quran right away from the Prophet himself. It could be said that he developed up with the verses of the Quran, appreciating well the contributing elements surrounding each revelation. He hence became well-versed in the surprises of the Shariah and at an early age advanced the well-deserved repute as a primary scholar amid the companions of the Prophet.
After the death of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and give him serenity, the task plunged on this fortunate youthful man who concentrated in the Quran to authenticate the first and most valued source for the ummah of Muhammad. This became an imperative task after the combats of apostasy and the Battle of Yamamah in actual in which a large number of those who had dedicated the Quran to recollection perished.
Umar sold on the Khalifah Abu Bakr that if not the Quran was accumulated in one manuscript, a large part of it was in perilous circumstances of being lost. Abu Bakr summoned Zayd ibn Thabit and said to him: "You are an educated youthful man and we perform not believe you (of telling lies or of forgetfulness) and you employed to draft the Divine revelation for Allah's Messenger. Therefore view for (all elements of) the Quran and accumulate it in one manuscript."
Zayd was straight away mindful of the weighty responsibility. He afterwards said: "By Allah, if he (Abu Bakr) had ranked me to transfer one of the outcrops from its position, it would not have been harder for me than what he had ranked me in view to the accumulation of the Quran."
Zayd lastly agreed to the task and, as showed by him, "started finding the Quranic material and accumulating it from parchments, scapula, leafstalks of day of the year palms and from the recollections of men (who knew it by heart)".
It was a painstaking task and Zayd was painstaking that not a solitary wrongdoing, even so small or unintentional, should creep into the work. When Zayd had concluded his task, he left the organised suhuf or covers with Abu Bakr. Before he deceased, Abu Bakr left the suhuf with Umar who in turn left it with his girl child Hafsah. Hafsah, Umm Salamah and Aishah were wives of the Prophet, may Allah be delighted with them, who memorized the Quran.
During the time of Uthman, by which time Islam had distribute far and large, divergences in reading the Quran became obvious. A gathering of companions of the Prophet, overseen by Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, who was then placed in Iraq, came to Uthman and recommended him to "save the Muslim ummah before they dissent about the Quran".
Uthman received the manuscript of the Quran from Hafsah and over summoned the primary agency, Zayd ibn Thabit, and some other competent companions to make very correct exact reproductions of it. Zayd was put in accuse of the operation. He concluded the task with the matching meticulousness with which he collected the primary suhuf as long as the time of Abu Bakr.
Zayd and his accomplices drafted more copies. One of these Uthman conveyed to every Muslim province with the rank that all other Quranic elements if typed in fragmentary manuscripts or total exact reproductions be burnt. This was valued in rank to abolish any variations or divergences from the yardstick text of the Quran. Uthman kept a exact reproduce for himself and returned the primary manuscript to Hafsah.
Zayd ibn Thabit hence became one of the foremost agencies on the Quran. Umar ibn al-Khattab one time addressed the Muslims and said: "O population, any person who desires to request about the Quran, let him depart to Zayd ibn Thabit."
And so it was that seekers of learning from amid the companions of the Prophet and the current inhabitants who was winning them, famous as the "Tabiun", came from far and large to gain from his knowledge.
When Zayd deceased, Abu Hurayrah said: "Today, the scholar of this ummah has died."
When a Muslim keeps the Quran and reads it or discovers it being recited, surah after surah, ayah after ayah, he should recognise that he is indebted a fabulous obligation of gratefulness and appreciation to a rightly many companion of the Prophet, Zayd ibn Thabit, for aiding to safeguard for all time to draw close the Book of Eternal Wisdom. Truly did Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, say: "Surely We have uncovered the Book of Remembrance and We will surely safeguard it." (The Quran, Surah al-Hijr, 15:9) |
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