Rashad khalifa refuted

Egyptian-American Quranist (1935–1990)

Rashad Khalifa (Arabic: رشاد خليفة; November 19, 1935 – January 31, 1990) was an Egyptian-Americanbiochemist, closely associated with the United Submitters International (USI), an organization that promotes the practice and study of Quranism.^[5] Khalifa saw his role as purging the accretions that found their way into Islam via hadith and sunnah, which he claimed were corrupted.

Similarly, he believed that previous revelations of God, such as the Bible, contained contradictions due to human interference^[6] (a concept known as tahrif). Instead, he believed that the beliefs and practices of Islam should be based on the Quran alone.

He is also known for his claims regarding the existence of a Quran code, also known as The Number 19.

However, his changing views regarding the essence of faith, recorded in his two renditions of the Quran, and declaring himself as a divine messenger who communicated with Gab