Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 3-27b

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"From Ibn Shihāb, who said: It reached us that a great deal of the Qur'an had been revealed, and its scholars, who had retained it, were killed on the day of al-Yamāmah, and it was not known after them and had not been written down. So when Abū Bakr, ʿUmar and ʿUthmān compiled the Qur'an, and it was not found with anyone after them — and this is according to what reached us — it moved them to trace the Qur'an and they gathered it in the sheets during the caliphate of Abū Bakr, out of fear that men of the Muslims would be killed in the battlefields, who had much of the Qur'an with them, and what they had of the Qur'an would be lost, and it would not be found with anyone after them. Then God granted ʿUthmān success, so he copied those sheets into codices, sent them to the regions, and spread them among the Muslims."

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