Who destroyed Quran?
Rachel Fowler
Updated on February 24, 2026
When the task was finished Uthman kept one copy in Medina and sent others to Kufa, Baṣra, Damascus, and, according to some accounts, Mecca, and ordered that all other variant copies of the Quran be destroyed. This was done everywhere except in Kufa, where some scholars argue that Ibn Masʿūd and his followers refused.
When was the Quran destroyed?
Pre-1924 Qurans dumped in the NileFollowing the printing of the 1924 "royal" edition (amīriyya)." a large number of pre-1924 Qurans were destroyed by dumping them in the river Nile.