Bukhari 4986 — collecting the Qur'an under Abu Bakr

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«فتتبعت القرآن أجمعه من الرقاع والأكتاف والعسب وصدور الرجال، حتى وجدت من سورة التوبة آيتين مع خزيمة بن ثابت لم أجدهما مع غيره»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Mentions: Zayd ibn Thabit· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Khuzayma ibn Thabit
Basis for: The Compilation of the Qur'an under Abu Bakr

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The Compilation of the Qur'an under Abu Bakr· Medina· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness· Abu Sufyan's mission to Medina· After Badr: the dead, the captives, the spoils, and the news in Mecca and Medina· The Badr war council

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Sahih al-Bukhari

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The Compilation of the Qur'an under Abu Bakr

Zayd ibn Thabit: Abu Bakr sent for me after the Yamama dead, Umar at his side — 'the killing ran through the people on Yamama's day; I fear it running through the reciters in the stations and much of the Qur'an going — you must compile it'. 'How do a thing the Prophet did not do?' — 'By God, it is good' — till God opened his breast. 'You are a young man of sense, unaccused, who wrote the revelation: follow the Qur'an and gather it' — 'were I tasked to carry a mountain it were no heavier'. So he gathered it from the riqa', the shoulder-bones, the palm-stems and the breasts of men, till he found Bara'a's two closing verses with Khuzayma ibn Thabit alone.