London - Sebuah temuan menakjubkan terkuak setelah umat muslim merayakan Idul Fitri.Selama bertahun-tahun dua lembar perkamen yang terbungkus elegan bergaya Arab lama tersimpan. Perkamen ini terikat rapi bersama dengan manuskrip Al Quran yang bertanggal abad ketujuh.

Dikutip dari CNN, Kamis (23/7/2015), Universitas Birmingham, Inggris melakukan penelitian yang hasilnya menyebutkan bahwa perkamen itu bisa saja merupakan yang tertua di dunia. Penelitian dilakukan dengan analisis hidrokarbon dengan akurasi 95 persen untuk menentukan usia perkamen.

Hasil tes menyebutkan bahwa perkamen tersebut ditulis antara tahun 568 hingga 645 masehi. Ini berarti ditulis berdekatan dengan masa Nabi Muhammad SAW yang hidup antara tahun 570 hingga 632 masehi.

Perkamen tersebut dikumpulkan sejak tahun 1920an oleh Alphonse Mingana, seorang Imam yang lahir di dekat kota Mosul-Irak namun tinggal di Inggris. Koleksi Mingana kemudian disimpan di Universitas Birmingham di bawah Perpustakaan Riset Cadbury.

Kedua perkamen itu diyakini merupakan bagian dari Surat ke 18 sampai 20 yang ditulis menggunakan tinta dalam tulisan Arab kuno (Hijazi). Menurut Profesor Ilmu Kristiani dan Islam Universitas Birmingham David Thomas, teks dalam perkamen itu sama dengan apa yang tertulis di Al Quran masa kini.

"Ini membuktikan bahwa Quran yang ada saat ini kurang lebih sangat dekat kesamaannya dengan Quran yang ditulis pada masa awal Islam," kata dia.

Dia kemudian menjelaskan bahwa berdasarkan dengan sejarah Islam, Nabi Muhammad SAW menerima wahyu berupa Al Quran antara tahun 610 hingga 632 masehi. Wahyu tersebut kemudian dituliskan di daun-daun dan kulit-kulit hewan.

"Pada waktu itu, pesan Tuhan belum langsung dituliskan dalam buku seperti yang kita lihat sekarang. Wahyu-wahyu itu disimpan dalam memori orang-orang yang hidup di zaman tersebut. Kemudian dituliskan dalam bentuk perkamen, batu, daun palem dan tulang unta," kata dia.

Adalah masa Khalifah Abu Bakar yang pertama kali memerintahkan untuk membukukan Al Quran. Kekhalifahan ini memerintah setelah Rasulullah Muhammad SAW wafat.

"Finalisasinya penulisan itu ditetapkan di bawah pimpinan khalifah ketiga, Khalifah Usman, yakni sekitar tahun 650 masehi. Umat muslim percaya bahwa Al Quran yang mereka baca saat ini sama persis dengan apa yang distandardisasi di bawah pengawasan Usman dan itu sesuai dengan wahyu yang dikirimkan kepada Nabi Muhammad SAW," tutur dia.
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Original Posted By indoheadlines►London (CNN)For years, the two parchment leaves covered in an elegant early form of Arabic script were misbound with leaves of a similar Quran manuscript dating from the late seventh century.

Now, with the help of radiocarbon analysis, the two fragments have been shown to be decades older -- which puts them among the oldest known examples in the world, according to researchers at the UK's University of Birmingham.

The testing, which is more than 95% accurate, has dated the parchment on which the text is written to between 568 and 645 AD, the researchers said.

This means it was created close to the time of the Prophet Mohammed, who is generally thought to have lived between AD 570 and 632 AD, they said.

The ancient fragment is part of the university's Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern manuscripts, held in the Cadbury Reseach Library. They were gathered in the 1920s by Alphonse Mingana, a Chaldean priest who was born near Mosul, Iraq, but settled in England.

The two parchment leaves are believed to contain parts of Suras (chapters) 18 to 20, written with ink in an early form of Arabic script known as Hijazi.

And according to Professor David Thomas, professor of Christianity and Islam, the text is very similar to what is found in the present day Quran.

"This tends to support the view that the Quran that we now have is more or less very close indeed to the Quran as it was brought together in the early years of Islam," he said.

Written on parchment, stone, camel bones

Thomas and Nadir Dinshaw, professor of interreligious relations at the University of Birmingham, said the results of the radiocarbon analysis had been "startling" and "could well take us back to within a few years of the actual founding of Islam."

The animal from whose hide the parchment was made could have been alive in the lifetime of the Prophet Mohammed, or shortly afterward, they said in a university news release.

According to Muslim tradition, they said, the Prophet Mohammed received the revelations that form the Quran between 610 and 632 AD.

"At this time, the divine message was not compiled into the book form in which it appears today. Instead, the revelations were preserved in 'the memories of men.' Parts of it had also been written down on parchment, stone, palm leaves and the shoulder blades of camels," the researchers said.

It was only under Caliph Abu Bakr, the first leader of the Muslim community after Mohammed, that the collection of all Quranic material was ordered to be gathered in the form of a book, they said.

"The final, authoritative written form was completed and fixed under the direction of the third leader, Caliph Uthman, in about AD 650. Muslims believe that the Qur'an they read today is the same text that was standardised under Uthman and regard it as the exact record of the revelations that were delivered to Muhammad."

'Global significance'

The researchers hailed the discovery as being of particular significance to Birmingham because the city is culturally diverse with a large Muslim population.

Susan Worrall, director of special collections at the Cadbury Research Library, described the manuscript as "a treasure that is of global significance to Muslim heritage and the study of Islam, as well as being a source of great pride to the local community."

Dr Muhammad Isa Waley, lead curator for Persian and Turkish Manuscripts at the British Library, said: "This is indeed an exciting discovery.

"We know now that these two folios, in a beautiful and surprisingly legible Hijazi hand, almost certainly date from the time of the first three Caliphs."

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CNN's Vasco Cotovio contributed to this report.

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akhir surat maryam dan awal surat thaha

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