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«إذا اختلفتم أنتم وزيد بن ثابت في شيء من القرآن فاكتبوه بلسان قريش فإنما نزل بلسانهم، ففعلوا حتى إذا نسخوا الصحف في المصاحف رد عثمان الصحف إلى حفصة وأرسل إلى كل أفق بمصحف مما نسخوا وأمر بما سواه من القرآن في كل صحيفة أو مصحف أن يحرق»
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In the Book of the Virtues of the Qur'an: Hudhayfa's warning from Azerbaijan, the borrowing of Hafsa's pages, the committee of four, the instruction that the text follow Quraysh's dialect, the sending of codices to the regions, and the burning of other versions. It is the full text on the unification of the codex. 1
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Source: Sahih al-Bukhari. Mentions Uthman ibn Affan, Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman, Hafsa bint Umar and Zayd ibn Thabit. Built on in the chapter on the standardisation of the codex under Uthman.
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Medina· Uthman's standardization of the mushaf· The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)· The Hijra· The Scribes of Quraysh and the Prophet's House· The Ansar· Muwatta 1457· Muwatta 1672
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- Sahih al-Bukhari
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islam.museum contributors. “Bukhari 4987 — Uthman's standard copies”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/bukhari-4987/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.