@GabrielSaidR ↔ @Jay_49erTikTok conversation

Professor, if the believers accepted an ordained hierarchy in the order of the caliphs, then why did Uthman destroy Abu Bakr’s mushaf- the first official compilation, gathered from unique scattered sources such as stones, bones, leaves, and stalks?

Additionally, we see Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Abu Bakr’s own son, involved in the revolt against Uthman, accusing him of altering the Book of Allah and killing him

So we have burning, killing, and accusations of corrupting each other’s books.

That does not exactly look like deep respect for the so-called respected pecking order.