This is something which the Ahl al-Sunnah as well as the Shiah have narrated.

This is something which the Ahl al-Sunnah as well as the Shiah have narrated. Both of them have also narrated Ibn Masud's criticism of `Uthman in this regard. The author again concludes the occurrence of tahrif from this incident after discussing further details.

Here we point out that `Uthman's act was supported by Imam 'Ali ibn Abi `Falb (A), and the criticism of Ibn Mas'ud has either been false­ly attributed to him or was for some other reason, or was a result of Ibn Mas`ud's ignorance of the extent of divergence of reading amongst the people, as noticed by Hudhayfah.

Here al-Nuri mentions traditions and statements from Sunni sources regarding deletions from the Qur'an, like the narration from `Abd Allah ibn `Umar concerning the deletion of verses from the Qur'an and the loss of a large number of them, or the story of Abu Musa al- 'Ash`ari as mentioned in Muslim's Sahih regarding his gathering the qurra' of the Qur'an and his remarks about one of al-Musabbihat, the matter of the so-called surahs of al-Khal and al-Hafd,55 the tradition narrated by al ­Bukhari concerning the inclusion of the phrase `salat al-`asr in the verse 2:238 and such similar instances mentioned about the mushaf of `A'ishah.

He cites al-Bukhari regarding the tahrif of other verses, and mentions the purported inclusion of such phrases as مواسم الحج and إلى أجلٍ مسمى in the verses 2:198 and 4:24 from al-Thalabi, Al-Suyuti, al-Itqan, Malik's al-Muwatta; and al-Raghib al-Isfahani's al-Muhdadardt. That which we said in relation to his argument relating to tradi­tions concerning the abrogation of reading also applies here.

Al-Nuri bases this argument on certain Shii traditions in which there is no mention of the Qur'an, or tahrif, or differences of readings, but which state that the names of the Imams (A) had been mentioned in all the heavenly scriptures. From this al-Nuri infers that if the Imams' names were present in earlier scriptures, then their names must also have been mentioned in the Qur'an as well, which is the scripture speci­fied for the Islamic ummah.

Since we do not find their names in the Qur'an, it does not imply that they were not mentioned, but rather that they were deleted by interested persons. We do not accept this argument because its premises are refutable, considering that it is possible that the absence of the mention of the names of the Imams (A) could be due to some reason that we do not know.