1241—Al-Firyābī narrated to us, saying: Ubayd Allah ibn Umar al-Qawārīrī narrated to us, saying: Abū Ahmad al-Zubayrī narrated to us, saying: Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated to us, from al-Suddī, from Abd ⦗1783⦘ Khayr, from Alī ibn Abī Tālib—may Allah be pleased with him—who said: “The person who has earned the greatest reward for the Quranic codices is Abū Bakr al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him. He was the first to compile the Quran between two covers.”