The word · The Qur’an
نُزولُ القُرْآن
Nuzul al-Qur'an
The sending down of the Qur'an: gradually, over roughly twenty three years, alongside real events.
Also written · Nuzul · Nuzool · Tanzil · Tanzeel · Inzal · Wahy · Wahi · Nuzul e Quran · revelation of the Quran · how the Quran was revealed
The meaning
What Nuzul al-Qur'an means in Islam
The first revelation was Iqra, in the cave of Hira, and the last verses came near the end of the Prophet's life. The Qur'an explains its own slow pace: it came in stages to steady the Prophet's heart. A well known report from Ibn Abbas adds an earlier stage, the whole Qur'an brought down to the lowest heaven on Laylat al-Qadr and then released piece by piece.
Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- Asbab an-NuzulThe event or question a particular verse was revealed in answer to.أَسْبابُ النُّزول
- MakkiA verse or surah revealed before the migration to Madinah, whatever place it came down in.مَكِّيّ
- MadaniA verse or surah revealed after the migration to Madinah, whatever place it came down in.مَدَنِيّ
- Jam' al-Qur'anThe gathering of the Qur'an into one written volume, carried out under Abu Bakr and then Uthman.جَمْعُ القُرْآن
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- HifzMemorising the Qur'an by heart, traditionally with a teacher who hears you every day.الحِفْظ
- IzharPronouncing a nun sakinah or tanwin clearly, with no nasal hum, before one of six throat letters.الإِظْهار
- Mujawwad and MurattalTwo recorded styles: mujawwad is slow and ornamented for listening, murattal is even and plain.المُجَوَّد وَالمُرَتَّل
- Rub' al-HizbA quarter of a hizb, shown by the small ornamental star in the margin of the mushaf.رُبْعُ الحِزْب
- TafsirExplanation of the Qur'an: what a verse means, why it came, and what it asks of you.التَّفْسير