Who first pointed and vowelled the codex of the Qur'an?

The introduction to al-Muharrar al-Wajiz has a chapter 'on the collection of the Qur'an, its vowelling, dotting, division into parts and marking of tens'. ¹ Ibn Atiyya states that the Uthmanic codex was neither vowelled nor dotted, then gives what reached him on who first dotted it. ^{1 2}

Ibn Atiyya says that in the Prophet ﷺ's lifetime the Qur'an was scattered in men's memories and written on sheets, palm stalks, flat stones and potsherds; that Umar urged Abu Bakr to collect it when many reciters were killed at al-Yamama, and they charged Zayd ibn Thabit, who collected it without ordering the suras; the sheets stayed with Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Hafsa. ¹ When Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman returned from the Armenian campaign, having seen the Syrians and Iraqis differ in recitation, Uthman charged Zayd with three men of Quraysh to copy the codex, told them to write in the dialect of Quraysh where they differed, sent the copies to the provinces and ordered the rest burned. ^{3 1} He cites Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Tayyib that the present order of the suras is the work of Zayd and those with him, with Uthman's participation, while the order of verses and placing the basmala go back to the Prophet; and he holds that the reports suggest the seven long suras, the Ha-Mim suras and the mufassal were already ordered in his time. ²

On marking every ten verses, Ibn Atiyya says he came across in some histories that the Abbasid al-Ma'mun ordered it, or, it is said, al-Hajjaj; he cites Abu Amr al-Dani from Qatada: 'they began by dotting, then marked fives, then tens', which he reads as a kind of disapproval. ²

• Ibn Atiyya gives the three accounts of the dotting without an explicit preference.
• 'Abu al-Faraj' is not identified on the page and is not linked.