A New and Analytical Look at the Traditions of “Seven Letters”

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student in Quran and Hadith at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 Professor of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

3 Associate professor of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Abstract

The traditions of “Seven letters” are among the most important hadiths in the field of Qur'anic sciences and especially in the field of recitations which kind of orientation and dealing with them, has created a variety of attitudes towards the issue of recitations and the origin of their formation as well as their value. Some people believe that these traditions are authentic and the source of the various ways of recitations is revelation and from God but in contrast, a group that refuses them in terms of text and document and rely on their own sources and fundamentals, consider the true and revealed reading as a unit recitation. The categorization, analysis, and dating of these traditions show that the issuance of these traditions initially meant that the verses of the Qur'an have a variety of semantic strands and have no connection with the multiple revelation of the Qur'an’s words by God; But the same Hadiths were used by a group of subordinates in the following periods to sanctify various readings and entered the field of reading with changes in words and expressions

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