The Holy Quran is protected by The Imams(as)

Sulaim Ibn Qais reported that Talhah Ibn Ubaidillah said: “O father of Hasan, i want to ask you about something. I saw you come out with a sealed robe and said: “O you people, i was continuously busy with the washing of the dead of the Prophet Muhammad (s.) and his wrapping in a shroud and his burial. Then i went after the book of God until i collected it. So this is the book of God in a collection, not a single letter of which is missing.” But i didn’t see the book you wrote and compiled. I saw that Umar sent someone to you to send it to me in his time of succession, but you refused to carry it out and Umar called people to him. If two gave their testimony about a verse, he wrote it down and if none but one gave his testimony about it, he rejected it and did not write it down. I heard that Umar said: “On the day of Yamamah, men were killed who used to read the Qur’an that no one but them read, whereupon it disappeared and a sheep approached a page – and the scribes of Umar wrote down – and ate it, whereupon what was in it disappeared and on that day the scribe was Uthman. What do you say?I heard Umar and his companions, who were writing what was written at the time of Uthman, say: “The chapter Al-Ahzab had the extent of the chapter Al-Baqarah (286 verses) and An-Nur had 160 verses and Al-Hujurat had 90 verses.” What about that? What stopped you, God have mercy on you, from going out to them with what you wrote for the people? I saw Uthman taking what Umar wrote and he collected the book for him. He gave the people a single reading and tore and burned the copy of Ubayy Ibn Ka’b and Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud with fire. What about this?” Ali (a.) said: “O Talhah, every verse that God sent down to Muhammad (s.) in His book is with me, in that the Messenger (s.) dictated it and my hand wrote it down and the interpretation of every verse that God sent down to Muhammad (s. ) and every permitted or forbidden or boundary punishment or judgment or matter that the community needs until the Day of Resurrection is with me written down in that the Messenger (s.) dictated it and my hand wrote it down, all the way to the compensation for the smallest scratch.” Talhah said: “All things, whether small or great or special or general, whether it was or will be until the Day of Resurrection is written down with you?” Ali (a.) said: “Yes, and besides this, the Messenger (s.) entrusted to me during his illness a thousand gates of knowledge, each gate of which opens a thousand gates. If the community had followed and obeyed me from the time when God took His Prophet (s.) to Himself, they would have prospered above and below their feet until the Day of Resurrection.” 

📚Kitab Sulaim, P209 – 211

Chapter The complete Quran is preserved by The Imams(as)

Jabir reported that Imam Al-Baqir (a.) said: “No one among the people claims to have completely collected the Qur’an as it was sent down, except a liar, because no one collected and guarded it as God sent it down, except Ali Ibn Abi Talib (a.) and the Imams (a.) after him.”

Muhammad ibn al-Husayn has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan from Muhammad ibn Sinan from ‘Ammar ibn Marwan from al-Munakhkhal from Jabir from abu Ja‘far (a.s.) who has said the following. “No one is able to claim that with him is the whole of the Holy Quran; its apparent and hidden essence, except the executors of the will of the Holy Prophet (s.a.).

📚Kitab Al Kafi V1,P155-156

Chapter The complete Quran is With The Imams(as) 

It is narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Al Husayn, from Muhammad Bin Sinan, from Ammar Bin Marwan, from Al Munakhal, from Jabir, From Abu Ja’far (as) who said: ‘There is no one capable of claiming that he collected the Quran, all of it, its apparent and its esoteric, apart from the successors.

It is narrated to us by Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Amro bin Abu Al Miqdam, from Jabir who said,

I heard Abu Ja’far(as)  saying: ‘There is no one from the people who can say he collected the Quran, all of it, just as Allah (swt) Revealed, except a liar, and no one collected it and preserved it just as Allah (swt) Revealed except Ali asws Bin Abu Talib (as) and the Imams (as) from after Him ’’.

It is narrated to us by Abdullah Bin Aamir, from Abu Abdullah Al Barqy, from Al Hassan Bin Usman, from Muhammad Bin Fuzeyl, from Abu Hamza Al Sumali, From Abu Ja’far (as) having said: : ‘I cannot find anyone from this community to have collected the Quran, except the successors(Imams){as}.

📚Basair Al Darajat* P229-230

*The book was written and compiled by Abu Ja’far Muhammad Bin Al-Hassan Bin Al-Farookh Al Saffaar

A companion of Imam Al Askari(as)

 

By claiming that Uthman(la) compiled The Holy Quran perfectly, one is taking a virtue away from Ahlul Bayt(as) and ascribes it to Their enemy.As its quite clear from many ahadith(which we cant fit all in this post) in our classical works that the original mainstream belief of the shia was that only The Imams(as) and no one else compiled the complete Quran.