Did Hadrat Husayn ﵁ Put His Foot on the Holy Qur’an?

Question

A religious scholar came to us and in the course of his speech said that once Hadrat Husayn ﵁, while playing, put his foot on the Holy Qur’an; the Companions ﵃ were displeased, and the Prophet ﷺ said, “What harm is there in it? One Qur’an has been placed on another Qur’an” — that is, he called Hadrat Husayn’s ﵁ foot a Qur’an…

Answer

The report that Hadrat Husayn ﵁ put his foot on the Holy Qur’an, that the noble Companions ﵃ were displeased, and that the Prophet ﷺ then said, “What harm is there — one Qur’an has been placed on another,” I have not seen in any book of hadith; nor is it sound by way of diraya: the written Qur’an did not then exist anywhere in collected form — one portion was with one person,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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