while whoever remembered it, remembered it, and whoever forgot it, forgot it.” Al-Bukhari recorded this.
The Rank of Knowing Allah Most High:
It is inconceivable—after he had taught them every single matter that could profit their religion, however slight—that he would leave untaught the very words they were to speak with their tongues and believe with their hearts concerning their Lord and object of worship, the Lord of all worlds: the One whose knowledge is the summit of all knowledge, whose worship is the noblest of all aims, and whose nearness is the highest of all pursuits. Indeed, this is the distillation of the prophetic call and the essence of the divine message. How, then, could anyone possessing even the smallest particle of faith and wisdom imagine that the explanation of this subject did not come from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the most complete and perfect form? If that clarification did in fact come from him, it is impossible that the best of his community