Motif
preservation of threatened revelation
preservation_of_threatened_revelation
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Revelation and Scripture. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 386-465 confidence: medium
Scattered fragments of the Koran were first collected by Abu Bekr about a year after the Prophet's death at Omar's suggestion, because warriors whose memories held revelations were dying or being slain.
The passage frames the first collection as a response to the danger that large portions of the revelations could be lost when memory-holding warriors died.
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