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Q&A · Sects & Comparative Belief

Do Sunnis and Shia have different Qurans?

No. The printed mushaf used in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon is textually identical to the one used in Makkah, Cairo and Istanbul — the same 114 surahs in the same order, overwhelmingly in the Hafs 'an 'Asim reading. Allah guaranteed the preservation of the Qur'an, and the Sunni position is that the text collected under Abu Bakr and standardised into a single mushaf under 'Uthman, with the agreement of the Companions, is that preserved Book. Some narrations in early Shia hadith collections suggest omissions, but the leading Twelver authorities — al-Saduq, al-Sharif al-Murtada, al-Tusi, and in modern times al-Khu'i — rejected them and affirmed that the Qur'an is complete. Differences between the two traditions lie in hadith, law and the imamate, not in the text of the Qur'an.

Evidence — the daleel
Quran 15:9Quran 41:41-42Sahih al-Bukhari 4986 ṢaḥīḥSahih al-Bukhari 4987 Ṣaḥīḥ
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