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64 THE HISTORY OF THE QUR'ANIC TEXT

Anas bin Malik commented, "The Prophet came to us while we were
reciting, among us Arabs and non-Arabs, blacks and whites..."Y
Additional evidence shows that Companions travelled beyond Madinah
to serve as instructors:
Mu'adh binJabal was dispatched to Yemen."
On their way to Bi'r Ma'una, at least forty Companions known for
teaching the Qjir'an were ambushed and killed.59
Abu 'Ubaidah was sent to Najran.s"
Wabra bin Yuhannas taught the Qur'an in San'a' (Yemen) to Um-
Sa'id bint Buzrug during the Prophet's lifetime."

4. The Outcome ofthe Educational Activities: ljuffi?:

The sea of incentives and opportunities for learning the Holy Book,
coupled with the waves of people involved in disseminating it, soon yielded
a prodigious number of Companions who had thoroughly memorised it
by heart (the ~vjJO.:;). Many were subsequently martyred on the fields of
Yamama and Bi'r Ma'una, and the full details of their names have, in
most cases, been lost to history. What the references do show are the names
of those who lived on, who continued to teach either in Madinah or in
the newly conquered lands of the growing Muslim realms. They include:
Ibn Mas'ud,52 Abu Ayyl1b,53 AbUBakr as-Siddiq,54 AbUad-Darda',55 AbU
Zaid,55 Abu Musa al-Ash'art.f? Abu Huraira," Ubayy b. Ka'b,59 Um-

57 Ibn Hanbal, Musnad, iii:146; also al- Faryabi, Farjii'il, pp. 244-45.
58 Al-KhalIfa, Tarfkh, i:72; ad-Dulabi, al-Kunii, i:19.
59 Al-Baladhuri, Ansdb, i:375.
60 Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqat, iii/2:299.
61 Ar-Razi, TankhMadfnat$an'a',p. 13l.
62 Adh-Dhahabi, Seyar al-'Aliim an-Nubalii', ii:245; Ibn Hajar, Fathul Ban, Lx:52.
63 Ibn I:Iajar, Fathul Ban, ix:53.
64 Ibn I:Iajar, Fathul Ban, ix:52; al-Kattani, at-Tardtib al-Iddriya, i:45-6.
65 Ibn Habib, al-Muhabbar, p. 286; an-Nadirn, al-Fihrist, p. 27; ad-Dulabi, al-Kund,
i:31-2; al-Kattani, at-Tardtib al-Idiiriya, i:46.
66 Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqat, ii/2: 112.
67 Ibn I:Iajar, Fat1}ul Ban, ix:52.
68 Al-Kattani, at-Tariitib al-Iddriya, i:45; Ibn Hajar, Fathul Barf, ix:52.
69 Al-Bukhari, $a~f~, hadith nos. 5003, 5004; Ibn Hablb, al-Muhabbar, p. 86; an-
Nadim, al-Fihrist, p. 27; adh-Dhahabi, Tabaqdtal-Qyrra', p. 9.