The analysis of Surah Al Nasr dating

Abstract

From scholars’ point of views, Surah Al-Naṣr has been renowned as the last chapter of the Holy Quran. In addition, a great number of traditions also confirms that it was descended as the final chapter in the last days of the Prophet’s (pbuh) lifetime. On the other hand, the revelation of Al-Naṣr was attributed by historians to the event of Mecca victory, invigorated with many traditions reporting the descent of Al-Naṣr during the Mecca victory or even two years after Prophet’s (pbuh) death. Both ideas are approved by Quranic commentators. Relying on internal context of the chapter in which the total faith of believers has been considered as the consequence of a great imminent victory and its accommodation to epochal evidences reporting the arrival of delegations to Medina after the victory, the second idea is considered as more accurate and reasonable. Meanwhile, more reflection on chronological correspondence between Al-Naṣr and Al-Ḥujurāt proves descent of them respectively; the former revealed in a while after the Mecca victory, showing the commence of coming delegations, while the latter was revealed after some delegations had arrived and thereafter Muslim folk’s recent social difficulties had raised there. As a result, those traditions reporting the Prophet’s (pbuh) death and end of his mission confirm the descent of Al-Naṣr after Mecca victory, while some traditions stating its revelation even in less than one year to Prophet’s (pbuh) death or as the last chapter are invalid, for they are in contradiction to the internal context of the Surah and other opponent traditions.

Keywords

• key words:holy quran dating
• the last surah
• the final descended surah
• surah al nasr
• surah al hojoraat