Shahih Bukhari - 4603

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Musa bin Isa'il] dari [Ibrahim bin Sa'd] Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Ibnu Syihab] dari [Ubaid bin As Sabbaq] bahwa [Zaid bin Tsabit] radliallahu 'anhu, ia berkata; Abu Bakar mengirim para korban perang Yamamah kepadaku, dan ternyata Umar bin Al Khaththab ada di sisinya. Abu Bakar radliallahu 'anhu berkata, "Sesungguhnya Umar mendatangiku dan berkata, 'Mayoritas korban perang Yamamah adalah para penghafal Al Qur`an. Dengan gugurnya mayoritas penghafal Al Qur`an, maka aku khawatir sebagian besar Al Qur`an juga akan hilang. Maka aku berpendapat, sebaiknya Anda segera memerintahkan guna melakukan dokumentasi alquran.' Maka aku pun bertanya kepada Umar, 'Bagaimana kamu akan melakukan sesuatu yang belum pernah dilakukan oleh Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam? ' Umar menjawab, 'Perkara ini, demi Allah adalah ide yang baik.' Umar selalu membujukku hingga Allah memberikan kelapangan dadaku, dan akhirnya aku sependapat dengan Umar." Zaid berkata; Abu Bakar berkata, "Sesungguhnya kamu adalah seorang pemuda yang cerdas, kami sama sekali tidak curiga sedikit pun padamu. Dan sungguh, kamulah yang telah menulis wahyu untuk Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam. Karena itu, telusurilah Al Qur`an dan kumpulkanlah." Zaid berkata, "Demi Allah, sekiranya mereka memerintahkanku untuk memindahkan gunung, niscaya hal itu tidaklah lebih berat daripada apa yang mereka perintahkan padaku, yakni dokumentasi alquran." Zaid bertanya, "Bagaimana kalian melakukan sesuatu yang belum pernah dilakukan oleh Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam?" Ia menjawab, "Demi Allah, itu adalah kebaikan." Abu Bakar terus membujukku, hinnga Allah pun memberikan kelapangan dadaku, sebagaimana Abu Bakar dan Umar radliallahu 'anhuma. Maka aku pun mulai menelusuri Al Qur`an, mengumpulkannya dari tulang-tulang, kulit-kulit dan dari hafalan para Qari`. Dan akhirnya aku pun mendapatkan bagian akhir dari surat At Taubah bersama Abu Khuzaimah Al Anshari, yang aku tidak mendapatkannya pada seorang pun selainnya. Yakni ayat: 'Sungguh, telah datang pada kalian seorang Rasul dari kaum kalian sendiri, yang sangat berat olehnya kesulitan yang menimpa kalian..'" hingga akhir surat Al Bara`ah. Lembaran-lembaran Al Qur`an itu pun tetap tersimpan pada Abu Bakar hingga Allah mewafatkannya. Kemudian beralih kepada Umar semasa hidupnya, lalu berpindah lagi ke tangan Hafshah binti Umar radliallahu 'anhu. (HR. Bukhari: 4603)

Narrated Zaid bin Thabit: Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me when the people! of Yamama had been killed (i.e., a number of the Prophet's (ﷺ) Companions who fought against Musailama). (I went to him) and found ʿUmar bin Al-Khattab sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said (to me), "Umar has come to me and said: "Casualties were heavy among the Qurra' of the! Qurʾan (i.e. those who knew the Qurʾan by heart) on the day of the Battle of Yalmama, and I am afraid that more heavy casualties may take place among the Qurra' on other battlefields, whereby a large part of the Qurʾan may be lost. Therefore I suggest, you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qurʾan be collected." I said to ʿUmar, "How can you do something which Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not do?" ʿUmar said, "By Allah, that is a good project. "Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till Allah opened my chest for it and I began to realize the good in the idea which ʿUmar had realized." Then Abu Bakr said (to me). 'You are a wise young man and we do not have any suspicion about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). So you should search for (the fragmentary scripts of) the Qurʾan and collect it in one book)." By Allah If they had ordered me to shift one of the mountains, it would not have been heavier for me than this ordering me to collect the Qurʾan. Then I said to Abu Bakr, "How will you do something which Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not do?" Abu Bakr replied, "By Allah, it is a good project." Abu Bakr kept on urging me to accept his idea until Allah opened my chest for what He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and ʿUmar. So I started looking for the Qurʾan and collecting it from (what was written on) palmed stalks, thin white stones and also from the men who knew it by heart, till I found the last Verse of Surat At-Tauba (Repentance) with Abi Khuzaima Al-Ansari, and I did not find it with anybody other than him. The Verse is: 'Verily there has come unto you an Messenger (ﷺ) (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty..(till the end of Surat-Baraa' (At-Tauba) (9.128-129) Then the complete manuscripts (copy) of the Qurʾan remained with Abu Bakr till he died, then with ʿUmar till the end of his life, and then with Hafsa, the daughter of ʿUmar. (Bukhari: 4603)