With all these pointers...

With all these pointers, how could we accept the proposition that the collection of the Qur'an was delayed till the days of Abu Bakr, and that Abu Bakr had to depend upon two witnesses asserting that they had heard it from the Pro­phet (‘s)? [^1]: al Itqan, v1, p.215 [^2]: Mustadrak, v1, p.611 [^3]: Musnad, Hanbal, v15, p.324 [^4]: Kanz al Ummal, 2nd Edition v2, p.185 [^5]: Manahiul Irfan, p.324 Previous…