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 "label": {
  "en": "Zayd ibn Thabit",
  "ar": "زيد بن ثابت"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A young Ansari who became the Prophet's scribe of revelation; Abu Bakr set him to gather the Qur'an, and Uthman's committee under him produced the standard recension still read today.",
  "ar": "أنصاري شاب صار كاتب وحي النبي؛ كلفه أبو بكر بجمع القرآن، وترأس لجنة عثمان فخرج منها المصحف المعتمد الذي يُقرأ اليوم."
 },
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 ],
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  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences",
  "development-of-law-theology-institutions"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 610.9987884761495,
  "latest": 661.0011841447488
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0611~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "About eleven years old at the Hijra.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0660~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died in Medina about 45 AH.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "زيد بن ثابت بن الضحاك الخزرجي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
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   "edtf": "0611~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "About eleven years old at the Hijra.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0660~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died in Medina about 45 AH.",
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   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "scholar"
  ],
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   "sunni"
  ],
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   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0622"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
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    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "scholar",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632~"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Scribe of the revelation; headed the committees that collected the Qur'an under Abu Bakr and standardized it under Uthman.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "official",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0644~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Served in the administration of Medina under the caliphs.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/watt-1956-medina"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "زيد بن ثابت غلام أنصاري تعلّم الكتابة والألسنة بالمدينة وصار كاتب وحي النبي — ومحرر القرآن كتابًا، مرتين."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "كان ابن أحد عشر عند الهجرة {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}، فوُضع على الكِتاب وعلى تعلّم السريانية والعبرانية في خبر مشهور بأمر النبي. وكبر فصار كاتب الجماعة الأول، يدوّن الوحي أولًا بأول.\n\nوبعد وفاة النبي، ولما ذهبت حروب الردة بكثير من القرّاء، كلفه [[person/abu-bakr|أبو بكر]] — وكان شابًّا كما يروي عن نفسه، مهمة «كحمل جبل» — بجمع القرآن من الرقاع والصدور {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وصارت صحفه في حفظ [[person/hafsa|حفصة]]؛ وبعد عقد سمّى [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|عثمان]] لجنة برئاسة زيد فأخرجت المصحف المعتمد وبُعث به إلى الأمصار {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. ومات بالمدينة نحو سنة 660م."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "بين الوحي المقروء والمصحف المطبوع يقف محرر — والتراث يسمّيه. كل تلاوة في العالم اليوم ترجع إلى النص الذي أملاه زيد بن ثابت."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان زيد صبيًّا يكتب — فأمره النبي يكتب القرآن، وائتمنه خليفتان بعدها على جمعه في الكتاب الذي بين أيدينا."
    }
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    "id": "person/zayd-ibn-thabit",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
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   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Zayd ibn Thabit was an Ansari boy who learned writing and languages in Medina, became the Prophet's scribe of revelation — and the editor-in-chief of the Qur'an as a book, twice over."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Eleven years old at the Hijra {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}, Zayd was set to letters and — in a famous report — to learning Syriac and Hebrew at the Prophet's direction. He grew into the community's principal scribe, writing down revelation as it came.\n\nAfter the Prophet's death, when the Ridda wars had killed many reciters, [[person/abu-bakr|Abu Bakr]] charged Zayd — a young man, as he himself later told it, with a task \"like carrying a mountain\" — with gathering the Qur'an from written fragments and memories {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. The sheets he assembled passed to [[person/hafsa|Hafsa]]'s keeping; a decade later [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|Uthman]] named a committee headed by Zayd, which produced the single standard recension sent to the cities {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. He died in Medina about 660."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Between spoken revelation and printed Qur'an stands an editor — and the tradition names him. Every recitation in the world today descends from the text Zayd ibn Thabit wrote out."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Zayd was a boy who could write — so the Prophet had him write down the Qur'an, and later two caliphs trusted him to gather it into the book we have now."
    }
   ],
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