1242—Al-Firyābī also narrated to us, saying: Uthmān ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us, saying: Abd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us, from Sufyān, from al-Suddī, from Abd Khayr, who related that he heard Alī—may Allah be pleased with him—say: “May Allah have mercy on Abū Bakr. He was the first to compile the Quran between two covers.”