Mushaf of Aisha is a purported mushaf of the Quran that according to certain Islamic traditions was in the possession of Aisha, the youngest wife of Muhammed.[1]

According to Arthur Jeffery, it is highly unlikely that it was a pre-Uthmanic text collection of verses.[2] al-Tirmidhi and al-Bukhari have reported that Aisha utilized the mushaf for personal purposes and that it was copied by her mawla Abd Vūnus.[3] It is also probable that the mushaf was ascribed to the way she was known to recite the Quran's Uthmanic text,[2] as about a dozen of variants in reading are attributed to Aisha (of which all are supported by some other early authorities).[4]

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  • Shoemaker, Stephen J. (2022). Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520389038.
  • "Muṣḥaf". The Encyclopaedia of Islām: A Dictionary of the Geography, Ethnography and Biography of the Muhammadan Peoples, Volume 3, Part 2. E. J. Brill. 1970.
  • Jeffery, Arthur, ed. (1937). Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an. E. J. Brill. ISBN 978-0520389038.