When giving a list of the four best teachers of the Quran, Muhammad named Abdullah ibn Masud first.6 He disagreed with Ubay, saying that Ubay’s final two chapters were divine revealed prayers, not scripture. On that very same basis, though, he disagreed with the modern Quran, insisting that sura 1 as well as suras 113 and 114 are divinely revealed prayers, not portions of the Quran. He
