Third: Every Muslim conveyed the Quran from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—so it is untenable to claim that Abū Bakr was unfit to convey it.

Fourth: It must not be supposed that conveying the Quran was exclusively Alī’s responsibility. The Quran cannot be established through reports lacking mass transmission; rather, it must be mass-transmitted.

Fifth: That year, both Muslims and polytheists performed the pilgrimage. The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—had instructed Abū Bakr to proclaim during the pilgrimage:

“No polytheist shall perform the pilgrimage after this year, and no one shall circumambulate the House naked.”

This is established in the two Sahīh collections (1). What need, then, did the polytheists have for the Quran to be conveyed to them (2)?

[Section: The Rāfidī’s twelfth point—Umar’s statement that Muhammad had not died, his claim that this demonstrates Umar’s lack of knowledge, and the response to him]

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The Rāfidī (Shiite rejectionist) said (3):

“Twelfth: Umar’s statement, ‘Muhammad has not died,’ and this demonstrates (4) how little he knew. He ordered a pregnant woman to be stoned, but Alī forbade him, whereupon he said, ‘Were it not for Alī, Umar would have perished.’ There are also other rulings in which he erred and vacillated.”