Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 3-25b

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"From Abū Qilābah, who said: When it was the caliphate of ʿUthmān, the teacher would teach one man's recitation and another teacher would teach another man's recitation, and the boys began to meet one another and differ, until that reached the teachers, until some of them declared others' recitation to be disbelief. That reached ʿUthmān, so he stood up to give a sermon and said: You differ and make mistakes in speech while you are near me, so those in the distant regions are greater in difference and greater in error. So gather together, O Companions of Muḥammad, and write a model copy (imām) for the people. Abū Qilābah said: Mālik b. Anas narrated to me — Abū Bakr b. Abī Dāwūd said: this is Mālik b. Anas, the grandfather of Mālik b. Anas — he said: I was among those to whom it was dictated. Often they differed over a verse, and they would mention a man who had received it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, though he might be absent or in some of the desert areas. So they would write what came before it and what came after it, and leave its place blank until he came or someone was sent to him. When he finished the Muṣḥaf, he wrote to the people of the regions: I have done such and such and erased what I had, so erase what you have."

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