The following is from “Extract from the Anonymous Chronicle of AD 1234, With Supplementary Material in the Notes from the Chronicle of the Jacobite Patriarch Michael (Died AD 1199)”:
§ 88. ‘Uthmān was very
well-read in Arabic and had many worldly accomplishments. It was he, according
to the Arabs, who collected and ordered the Qur’ān, that is their ‘book which
came down from heaven, the words of which are of God’. Everyone in possession
of a fragment or a story from that ‘book’ heard by himself from Muḥammad was
commanded to bring it to the King. He then assembled the fragments into one
book and ordered it to be called the Qur’ān. He used, so they say, to go into
retreat for days at a time. When they asked him what he was doing, he replied
that he was ‘putting the Qur’ān in order. This ‘Uthmān was not from the tribe of
Quraysh but from the tribe of the Umayyads. (The Seventh Century in
West-Syrian Chronicles [trans. Andrew Palmer; Translated Texts for
Historians 15; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1993], 169)
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