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Voices that carried knowledge

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Continue with Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
  1. Collecting the Qur'an into one placeNext storyAbu Bakr as-SiddiqMadinah, during his caliphate, after a battle in which many of the reciters of the Qur'an were killed.
  2. The questions kept comingOpen anytimeAishah bint Abi BakrMadinah, in the decades after the Prophet ﷺ died.
  3. He was listeningOpen anytimeAbu Musa al-Ash'ariMadinah, at night, when Abu Musa did not know he could be heard.

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