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Belief of Shia in the Completeness of Quran A Wahhabi contributor mentioned that Shia believe Quran is not
complete. My answer to this matter is:

Glory to (Allah), this is a big slander! (Quran
24:16).

Shia do NOT believe that Quran is missing something.
There
are few weak traditions which * might * imply to the contrary.

Such
reports are rejected and unacceptable if they want to imply such
a thing.

It is interesting to point out that there are numerous traditions
reported in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim which allege that
many verses of Quran are missing.

Not only that, but also
they these Sunni reports allege that two chapters from the Quran
are missing one of them was similar to chapter 9 (al-Bara'ah) in
length!!! Some Sunni traditions even claim that the Chapter al-Ahzab
(Ch. 33) was as lengthy as the Chapter of Cow (Ch. 2)!!!

The Chapter of Cow is the biggest Chapter of the present Quran.

The
traditions inside Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim even present some
of the missing verses.

(Some of these traditions will
be mentioned in the following articles with full references.) Yet,
fortunately Shia never accuse the Sunni brothers and sisters of
believing that the Quran is incomplete.

We say that
either these Sunni reports are either weak or fabricated.

The completeness of Quran is so indisputable among Shia that the
greatest scholar of Shia in Hadith, Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Ali
Ibn al-Husain Ibn Babwayh, known as Shaykh Saduq
(309/919-381/991), wrote:

Our belief is that the Quran which
Allah revealed to His Prophet Muhammad is (the same as) the one
between the two covers (daffatayn).

And it is the one which is in the hands
of the people, and is not greater in extent than that.

The
number of surahs as generally accepted is one hundred and
fourteen ...
And he who asserts that we say that it is greater
in extent than that, is a liar.

Shi'i reference: Shi'ite Creed (al-I'tiqadat al-Imamiyyah), by
Shaykh Saduq, English version, p77.

It should be noted that Shaykh Saduq (RA) is the greatest scholar
of Hadith among the Imami Shia and was given the name of Shaykh
al-Muhaddithin (i.e. the most eminent of the scholars of Hadith).

And since he wrote the above in a book with the name of
The beliefs of the Imami Shia, it is quite impossible
that there could be any authentic Hadith in contrary to it.

It is noteworthy that Shaykh Saduq lived at the time of minor
occultation of Imam Mahdi (AS) and he was one of the earliest
Shia scholars.

He had the honor that he was born with the prayer of Imam
Mahdi (AS).

Another prominent Shia scholar is Allama Muhammad Ridha Mudhaffar
who wrote in his Shia Creed book that:
We believe that the Holy Quran is revealed by Allah through
the Holy Prophet of Islam dealing with every thing which is
necessary for the guidance of mankind.

It is an everlasting
miracle of the Holy Prophet the like of which can not be produced
by human mind.

It excels in its eloquence, clarity, truth and knowledge.

This Divine
Book has not been tampered with by any one.

This
Holy Book which we recite today is the same Holy Quran which was revealed to
the Holy Prophet.

Any one who claims it to be otherwise is an
evil-doer, a mere sophist, or else he is sadly mistaken.

All of
those who have this line of thinking have gone astray as Allah in Quran said:
Falsehood can not reach the Quran from any direction (41:42) - Shi'i reference: The Beliefs of Shi'ite School, by Muhammad
Ridha Mudhaffar, English version, pp 50-51 Sayyid al-Murtadha, another prominent Shi'ite Scholar said:

our
certainty of the completeness of the Quran is like our certainty of the existence of countries
or major events that are self evident.

Motives and reasons
for recording and guarding the Holy Quran are numerous.

Because the
Quran is a miracle of the Prophethood and the source of Islamic Knowledge and
religious rule, their concern with the Quran made the Muslim Scholars
highly efficient concerning grammar, its reading, and its
verses.

With this various concern by the most eminent Shia scholars,
there is no possibility that the Quran was added or deleted in some parts.

Besides what Allah mentioned in Quran about its protection, we
can use our logic to derive the same result.

Allah sent his last
Messenger to show people (to the end of the time) His Right Path.

Therefore
if Allah does not preserve His message, He would be contradicting
His own aim.

Obviously, such negligence is evil according to
reason.

Thus, in essence, Allah preserves His message as He
preserved Moses in the house of His Enemy, Pharaoh.
May Allah Bless Muhammad and his pure Ahlul-Bayt.