Short answers, pulled from the story.
Muhammad received his first revelation in the year 610 CE inside a cave named Hira on the outskirts of Mecca. The experience was described as resembling the ringing of a bell and left him shaken and sweating profusely.
Caliph Abu Bakr ordered Zayd ibn Thabit to collect the scattered verses into one volume following the Battle of al-Yamama in 632. Zayd gathered material from parchments, palm-leaf stalks, thin stones, and men who knew the text by heart to produce a handwritten manuscript.
Workers discovered 12,000 fragments including palimpsests inside a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, which radiocarbon dating placed before 671 CE with 99 percent probability. German scholar Gerd R. Puin studied these documents over several years and revealed unconventional verse orderings suggesting an evolving text rather than a fixed one.
The Quran retells stories of Moses mentioned 136 times more frequently than any other prophet. Abraham appears in 35 chapters serving as a link from Adam to Muhammad through Ishmael within this narrative framework.
The final verse appeared on the 18th day of Dhu al-Hijjah in the year 10 AH, roughly February or March 632. This verse followed a sermon delivered at Ghadir Khumm during the lifetime of Muhammad.
The Quran consists of 114 chapters varying in length called surah containing individual verses known as ayat meaning sign or evidence. Total word count reaches approximately 77,430 words using 18,994 unique terms across 12,183 stems arranged roughly by decreasing size rather than chronologically.