When Christians and Muslims talk about God the question of the preservation of the Bible and Qur’an often comes up. Christians are regularly told that the Bible has been corrupted and that only the Qur’an is perfectly preserved. This new booklet deals with this issue. Print it out as an A5 booklet. Read it yourself and give a copy to your Muslim friend.
The Preservation of the Qur’an
This book might be helpful
“The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Quran: The Problem of Tawatur And The Emergence of Shawadhdh” by Shady Hekmat Nasser, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is a senior Lector of Arabic at Yale University
Here’s a glimpse of what within it: (especially concerning basmala contradiction)
http://books.google.co.id/books?id=Kx7i2Y56WuYC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=sunni+basmalah+is+not+part+of+quran&source=bl&ots=LWfqennwRj&sig=he22rF8mbm07Ua-RwFNqPmxK8LA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ux13U-bII5Xc8AW-3IHQCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=sunni%20basmalah%20is%20not%20part%20of%20quran&f=false
This other book might also be helpful;
” Original Islam: Malik and the Madhhab of Madina”
by Dr. Yasin Dutton ( Associate Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Cape Town, former Head of Arabic and Senior Lecturer In Arabic and Islamic Studies at Edinburgh University)
This book explains about Maliki Madhab including its belief about Basmalah as Not part of Quran AT ALL, except only in Sura 27:30 (basmalah is discussed starting from page 117 )
Here are some excerptions: http://books.google.co.id/books?id=azINyouP4EMC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=basmala+part+of+Quran+MAlik&source=bl&ots=xmrrq51Eum&sig=bfSa2wsv8VRRWE2joc5jq5kXCVc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z2p9U7HoH8X28QWq34DIAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=basmala%20part%20of%20Quran%20MAlik&f=false
page 124; Furthermore , some of the mushafs that were sent to Basra and Kufa did not have basmalah in them [at all] , for which reason both Abu Amr and Hamza in their reading leave out bi-smi-llahi l-rahmani i-rahim when joining between [the end of] one sura [the beginning of] another.
page 125; Al Zarkashi says in his Sharh Jam al-jawami : “The Imam considered the opinion of those who say that [the basmala] is definitely part of the Quran to be weak”
Al Zarkashi also quotes Shaykh Muhyi -Din al-Nawawi as saying that it is [not] definitely part of Quran
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(P.S for stating that one of the great & most authoritative Ulema of Shafi’i madhab such as Imam Nawawi agreeing with Maliki’ position concerning status of basmalah as NOT part of Quran AT ALL, is extremely significant cause it would bring a big blow to the Shafi’is)