MULTIPLE SOURCES SAY SURAH 33 HAS A LOT OF MISSING PARTS

 Why do multiple Islamic sources say Surah 33 is missing a lot of verses?. (PART 3).

Ubai Ibn Kab, Muhammad’ was a top reciter, the guy who memorized the most verses of the Quran, and one of his best teachers says Surah 33 used to be as long as Surah 2 

Surah 2 contains 286 verses

Ubai Ibn Kab said Surah 33 used to contain as much as Surah 2.

But Surah 33 contains 73 verses today. 

So according to Ubai Ibn Kab, the Master of the Quran… more than 200 verses were lost from a single chapter of the Quran. 

It was narrated by ‘Abdullah the son of Imam Ahmad in Zawaa’id al-Musnad (21207), ‘Abd ar-Razzaaq in al-Musannaf (599), Ibn Hibbaan in his Saheeh (4428), al-Haakim in al-Mustadrak (8068), al-Bayhaqi in as-Sunan (16911), Ibn Hazm in al-Muhalla (12/175), via ‘Aasim ibn Bahdalah, from Zirr, who said: Ubayy ibn Ka‘b said to me: How long is Soorat al-Ahzaab when you read it? Or how many verses do you think it is? I said to him: Seventy-three verses. He said: Only? There was a time when it was a long as Soorat al-Baqarah, and we read in it: “The old man and the old woman, if they commit zina, then stone them both, a punishment from Allah, and Allah is Almighty, Most Wise.” 

Ubayy ibn Ka'b, said that this surah al-Ahzaab (33) was equal to, or even bigger than the second chapter al-Baqarah (2).

Now the chapter al-Baqarah (2) contains 286 verses. 

It means accordingly that 213 or even more verses were lost from surah 33.