Ibn Shihab said: Anas ibn Malik Al-Ansari told me that the people of Sham and the people of Iraq got together to raid Azerbaijan and Armenia; he said: They deliberated about the Qur’an and argued about it to the point of sedition among them. Then Hudhaifa ibn Al-Yaman, when he saw their disagreements, rode out to ‘Uthman and said: "Indeed people have been arguing about the Qur’an, and – I swear by Allah – I fear that the disagreements that happened to the Jews and Christians will happen to them!" And ‘Uthman was exceedingly distressed about that, and he sent for Hafsah and took back the manuscript that Abu Bakr had ordered Zaid to compile. Then he made copies from it and sent them far and wide. And when Marwan was the leader of Medina, he sent for Hafsah, and asked her for the manuscripts so he could burn them, fearing that some of the copies might disagree with others, but she refused.