Puts all the instances of the concept of "ahad" in the Quran in perspective, doesn't it? There were Christians in the Middle East who resented Byzantium for taking what they felt was their religion, changing it to a trinitarian belief system, and forcing them to believe in it. From what I'm reading in the Hidden Origins of Islam, one of the main ideas is that might have started off as an offshoot of Christianity and eventually acquired its own unique identity due to the massive influence the Abbasids had on it. This may explain why we can't find any Mushafs that date back to Mo's time or even Uthman's. If you think about it, why don't we have any direct sources from Mo's time? Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Jami at-Tirmidi, and Tabari's history & tafseer all came out 100-200+ years after Muhammad's death. All of the oldest Mushafs historians have found can't be dated back to the 7th century-- they were all written around 100-200+ years afterwards during the time of the Abbasids. There's definitely something fishy going on here.