Sahih Ibn Hibban 4507a

Translation

✧ Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, ؓ, sent for me after the killing of the people of al-Yamamah, and ʿUmar b. al-Khattab, ؓ, was with him. Abu Bakr said, 'ʿUmar came to me and said, "The killing has been intense among the Muslims of al-Yamamah, and I fear that killing will be intense in the places and much of the Quran will be lost and not preserved. I want you to order the collection of the Quran." I said, "How can you do something that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not do?" ʿUmar said, "By Allah, it is good." He kept reviewing this with me until Allah opened my chest for that, and I saw in it what ʿUmar b. al-Khattab, ؓ, saw.' ʿUmar was sitting with him, not speaking. Abu Bakr said, 'You are a young intelligent man, and we do not suspect you, and you used to write down the revelation for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so trace the Quran and collect it.' Zayd said: By Allah, if they had tasked me with moving a mountain among the mountains, it would not have been heavier upon me than what he ordered me to do of collecting the Quran. I said, 'How can you do something that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not do?' He said, 'By Allah, it is good.' Abu Bakr kept reviewing this with me until Allah opened my chest to what He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and ʿUmar. He said: So I set out tracing the Quran, collecting it from palm stalks, shoulder blades, and the hearts of men, until I found the last part of Surah al-Tawbah with Khuzaymah al-Ansari; I did not find it with anyone else: 'There has certainly come to you a Messenger from among yourselves. Grievous to him is what you suffer.' The sheets in which I collected the Quran remained with Abu Bakr during his life until Allah took him, then with ʿUmar until Allah took him, then with Hafsah bint ʿUmar.

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