Page 143 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

(Narrated 'Aisha) "The verse of the stoning

and of suckling an adult ten times were
revealed, and they were (written) on a
paper and kept under my bed. When the

Messenger of God expired and we were
preoccupied with his death, a goat

entered and ate away the paper."
(Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, vol. 6.
p. 269; Sunan Ibn Majah, p. 626; Ibn

Qutbah, Tawil Mukhtalafi 'l-Hadith
(Cairo: Maktaba al-Kulliyat al-

Azhariyya. 1966) p. 310; As-Suyuti, ad-
Durru 'l-Manthur, vol. 2. p. 13)

Umar wanted to place the verse about ston-
ing to death that the goat had eaten back in
the Qur'an; but he was afraid of public

gossip and refrained from doing so. (Sahih
Bukhari 53/5; 54/9; 83/3; 93/21; Sahih

Muslim, Kitab al-Hudud 8/1431; Sunan
Abu Dawud 41/1; Itkan 2/34)

'Abdullah b. 'Abbas reported that 'Umar
b. Khattab sat on the pulpit of God's Mes-
senger (pbuh) and said: Verily God sent

Muhammad (pbuh) with truth and He sent
down the Book upon him, and the verse of

John William Waterhouse's oil
painting "Thisbe," 1909

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