![]() Six ahruf traditions are included in Sahih al-Bukhari and 21 traditions in the Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. These are principally found in three "clusters" of similar narrations. ![]() However, there are numerous references to the seven ahruf in Sunni hadith literature. The Quran itself talks about it being recorded in the preserved tablet in heaven ( al-lawh al-mahfooz), but makes no mention of there being any variant modes/forms/readings of it. ![]() Abu Amr al-Dani posits two explanations of ḥarf's meaning in the context of the seven aḥruf: that it refers to "dialectical variation" in the sense that language has multiple "sides", or that it refers to a reading of the Quran by virtue of being part of it in each reading a letter ( ḥarf) has been modified. For this reason, Yasin Dutton suggests the Quran is being described as "linguistically seven-sided". It can refer to the letters that form a word, and the aspects, borders or sides of an object. The word aḥruf is the plural of paucity of the Arabic word ḥarf, which has multiple meanings.
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