Foreword. Introduction 1. The Main Medinese Transmitters: Learning and Teaching the Use of Writing 2. The Text in the Transmission Process: Muhammad’s First Revelation (The Iqra’ Narration) 3. The Issue of Authenticity: The Tradition of the Slander Against A’isah (hadit al-ifk). Afterword. Appendix 1: The Corpus. Appendix 2: List of Sigla