Ibn Numayr transmitted—through al-Aʿmash, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas (may Allah be pleased with them)—regarding the sale of Qur’an codices: “They are merely artisans selling the work of their own hands.” They also report from ʿAli (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said, “A time will come upon the people when nothing of Islam will endure except its name, and nothing of the Qur’an except its written trace.”