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ibnhibban:4506d – Ibn Shihāb Ākhtalafūā Yawmaʾidh Fī al-Tābūt > Zayd al-Tābūh > Ibn al-Zubayr And Saʿīd b. al-ʿĀṣ al-Tābūt Farufiʿ Ākhtilāfuhum > ʿUthmān Riḍwān Allāh ʿAlayh

[Machine] Write it down, for it is the tongue of Quraysh.

ابن حبّان:٤٥٠٦d – قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ اخْتَلَفُوا يَوْمَئِذٍ فِي التَّابُوتِ فَقَالَ زَيْدٌ التَّابُوهُ وَقَالَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ الْعَاصِ التَّابُوتُ فَرُفِعَ اخْتِلَافُهُمْ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ رِضْوَانُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ

«اكْتُبُوهُ التَّابُوتُ فَإِنَّهُ لِسَانُ قُرَيْشٍ»

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bayhaqi:3994 – Abū Sahl > Abū Bakr b. Ḥabīb > Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq > Abū al-Walīd > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd > Ibn

and they differed on that day about ˹the spelling of the word˺ tābūt. Zayd said that ˹it should be˺ tābuh, while Saʿīd b. al-ʿĀṣ and Ibn Zubayr said that ˹it should be˺ tābūt. They then escalated their disagreement to ʿUthmān ؓ so he said: Write it as tābūt because it is in their dialect.

البيهقي:٣٩٩٤ – أنبأ أَبُو سَهْلٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ قَالَ قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ وَاخْتَلَفُوا يَوْمَئِذٍ فِي التَّابُوتِ فقَالَ زَيْدٌ التَّابُوه وَقَالَ سَعِيدُ بْنُ الْعَاصِ وَابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ التَّابُوتُ فَرَفَعُوا اخْتِلَافَهُمْ إِلَى عُثْمَانَ ؓ فَقَالَ

اكْتُبُوهُ التَّابُوتُ فَإِنَّهُ بِلِسَانِهِمْ