Volume 6, Book 61, Number 510:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman came to Uthman at the time when the people of Sham and the people of
Iraq were Waging war to conquer Arminya and Adharbijan. Hudhaifa was afraid of their (the
people of Sham and Iraq) differences in the recitation of the Qur’an, so he said to ‘Uthman, “O chief
of the Believers! Save this nation before they differ about the Book (Quran) as Jews and the Christi –
ans did before.” So ‘Uthman sent a message to Hafsa saying, “Send us the manuscripts of the Qur’an
so that we may compile the Qur’anic materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you.”
Hafsa sent it to ‘Uthman. ‘Uthman then ordered Zaid bin Thabit, ‘Abdullah bin AzZubair, Said bin Al-
As and ‘AbdurRahman bin Harith bin Hisham to rewrite the manuscripts in perfect copies. ‘Uthman
said to the three Quraishi men, “In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the
Qur’an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, the Qur’an was revealed in their tongue.” They did so,
and when they had written many copies, ‘Uthman returned the original manuscripts to Hafsa. ‘Uth –
man sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other
Qur’anic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt. Said bin
Thabit added, “A Verse from Surat Ahzab was missed by me when we copied the Qur’an and I used to
hear Allah’s Apostle reciting it. So we searched for it and found it with Khuzaima bin Thabit Al-An –
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sari. (That Verse was): ‘Among the Believers are men who have been true in their covenant with Al –
lah.’ (33.23)