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It is narrated that Imam Ali (A) collected the Qur'an after the death of the Prophet (S) but his collection was not accepted, and it was inherited by the Imams and is with the Mahdi (A), along with some other inherited sacred objects. 

Instead, the collection we have today is the one endorsed by Uthman during his caliphate, and the Shia Imams also instructed their followers to use that, for instance, in salat. 

No one can really say how much the compilation collected by Imam Ali (A) might have been identical to or different from what we have now, except that it is said that some the surahs were in a different order, since his was arranged chronologically, so this might at least be a difference. 

This is what one can glean from narrations - of course, not every narration is accurate - Allah knows best. In any case, we have been instructed to use what we have. 

Here are some references you can follow up: https://en.wikishia.net/view/Mushaf_of_Imam_Ali_(a)

Such claims are not new, but go back to more than fourteen centuries when Quran was revealed in the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and his enemies refused to believe. The reply is in the Quran itself when Allah (SWT) asked them to bring a book like Quran even by taking help from all their associates from humans and Jinns. They failed to bring like it. Allah asked them to bring ten chapters like Quranic chapters to prove that Quran is man made. They failed to do so. Then Allah asked them to bring just one Syrah (Chapter) like Quranic chapters which are 114, but they again failed to do so. This itself proved that Quranic can never be from humans but from The Creator, Allah.

‘All the scholars who read Quran, admitted that it is a Miracle in every field. Even non Muslim scholars admitted this fact. Miracles of Quran are attracting millions of truth seekers to the Truth of Islam.

Wassalam.

We have many authentic Hadeeths about the seven heavens and the seven earths. Imam Ali ibn Musa Al-Ridha (AS) was asked : Where are the seven earths? In his reply he stepped his left hand, and then he put the right on it, and he said, ""This is the land of this world (the first earth). And the sky is above it.  The second earth is above the first sky. The third earth is above the second sky , then forth earth is above the third sky ,  -- and so until he said: - and the seventh earth above the sixth sky, the seventh sky above it, the throne of the mercy is blessed and above the seventh sky above the seventh sky, the saying of God: * ( Who Created seven heavens and from the earth like them) *
Bihar Al-Anwaar , Volume 60, page 79.

Wassalam.

Allah Has granted the Prophet Muhammad every knowledge which he did not know as we read in Quran ( And He Has Taught you every knowledge which you did not know) Sura 4, Verse 113.

The Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) was never unlettered but for the benefit of the message of Islam, he did not practice reading and writing in front of people  to avoid giving a chance to the enmities of Islam to accuse him copying from previous religious books.(Sura Al-Ankabout, verse 48).

Wassalam.