of the Quran, write it in the dialect of the Quraysh, for it was revealed in their tongue." They followed [these guidelines]. When they had finished copying the sheets into codices, Uthman returned the sheets to I:Iaf a,
codices they had copied, and ordered the burning of all other Quranic material, whether in fragmentary manuscripts or full codices.

Ibn Shihab went on to say:

Kharija b. Zayd b. Thabit informed me that he heard [his father] Zayd say: "I missed a verse from the [Surat] al-Ai}zab when we copied the Quran, and I used to hear the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his progeny) reciting it. We looked for it and found it with Khuzayma b. Thabit al-An ari.
Among the believers are those persons who are truthful when they promise God about something (Q. ٣٣:٢٣). Thus, we inserted it in the proper place in the sura." ٢

٣. A tradition has been related by Abi Shayba, with a chain of transmission going back to Ali b. Abi Talib. He _said, "The greatest credit for collecting the Quranic text goes to AbU Bakr, for he was the first to collect that which is between the two covers."

٤. A tradition was related by Ibn Shihab on the authority of Salim b. Abd Allah and
Kharija:

AbU Bakr al-Siddiq collected the Quran in sheets (qara{is). He asked Zayd b. Thabit to scrutinize them. But Zaydrefused to do so until Abu Bakr sought Umars help in persuading him, and Zayd agreed. The books (kutub) remained in Abu Bakrs keeping until he died. Thereafter, they were kept with I:Iaf a,
her [a message to hand them over to him]. But she refused to do so until he promised her that he would return them to her. So she sent them to him. Uthman copied these sheets into codices and returned [the originals] to her. They continued to be in her keeping....

٥. Hisham b. Urwa related a tradition on the authority of his father. He said:

When the Muslims were slain in Yamama, AbU Bakr ordered Umar b. a!-Khattab and Zayd b. Thabit to sit at the entrance of the mosque. He said: "Anyone who comes to you with anything from the Quran that you do not recognize, but is witnessed by two men-accept it. This was because a large number of the Companions of the Prophet who had memorized the Quran had been killed in Yamama."

٦. Mu ammad
when Umar was assassinated.

٧. Al-l;lasan related:

Umar b. al-Khattab inquired about a verse of the Book of God. He was informed that it was in the possession of a person who was slain in the battle of Yamama. On hearing this, he recited the verse expressing loss-"We belong to God"-and ordered the col‌ lection of the Quran, and thus was the first to collect it in a codex (mu$/:taf).

٨. Y ya

Umar decided to collect the Quran. So he stood before the people [in the mosque]
and said, "Whoever received any part of the Quran [directly] from the Messenger of