Sahabah and Tabieen's Attitude about Mushaf

Holy Qur'an, the most basic source of Islamic religion, is a divine call in order to meet mankind with truth. The Prophet, who had written from the very first moment when verses started to given, didn't leave a single verse to be written when He died in Madinah. Being collected in a single copy in the era of Khalif Ebubekir, Qur'an was sent to different places after being copied in the era of Khalif Osman. In a very short time, people had written or had it written their own copy and so the number of the copies increased rapidly. This process in sahabah and tabieen era is basically an important stage that shapes how the relationship between Muslim and mushaf should or is. In this article, the relationship between sahabah and tabieen and the copy is discussed and hearsays about this topic are thoroughly evaluated by putting them together. Together with defining this relationship, what Qur'an perception was in minds of those who lived that era is put forward. With this side, it has a feature to lighten the roots of the relationship between Muslims and the mushaf.