THE RECENSIONS OF ABŪ-BAKR AND ʿUSMĀN
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"Anas-ibn-Mālik relates: 'Huzaifah came to ʿUsmān, and he had fought with the people of Syria in the conquest of Armenia; and had fought in Azurbaijan with the people of ʿIraq, and he was shocked at the different ways of people reading the Qurān, and Huzaifah said to ʿUsmān, "O ʿUsmān, assist this people before they differ in the Book of God, just as the Jews and Christians differ in their books." Then ʿUsmān sent a person to Hafsa, ordering her to send those
