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132 THE HISTORY OF THE QUR'ANIC TEXT

(a) 'Abdul-Fattah ash-Shalabi discovered an old Qur'anic manuscript
in which the scribe used two different spellings of JY (i.e. JY and 'N-)
on the same page. 13
(b) In the Raza Library Collection, Rampur, India, there is a Mushaf
written in Kufic script attributed to 'All bin AbI Talib. The word
~ is again spelled as 'N-, and ~ is spelled as l:>-. I have provided
a sample page below. 14

Figure 10.1: The Kiific M1l{~af attributed to 'Au binAbi" Talib, where ~
isspelled b- (seventh linefrom the top) andJY isspelled 'N- (fourth line
from the bottom). Courtesy Rampur Rara Library, India.

Malik bin DInar reports that 'Ikrima would recite verse 17: 107 as las'al
(JL;), though it is writtenfil (J-O). Malik reconciled this by saying that it

13 Ash-Shalabl,Rasmal-Mushof, pp. 72-73.In a similarcase,the Mushaf of 'Alqama
(d. after 60 A.H./679 C.E.), brought to light by Ibrahim an-Nakha't (d. 96 A.H.),spelled
the letter alif both in the traditional form and in the form of the letterya' - meaning
that certain words with alif had two interchangeable forms (e.g. b- and ?). I also
came acrossanother Mushaf foliofrom the first century A.H.where in the same page,
the same word has been written in two different ways.
14 For another sample page of the same Mushaf, see Dr. WHo Siddiqui and A.S.
Isiahi, Hindi-Urdu Catalogue if the exhibition held onthe occasion ofthe celebration ofthe 50th
Anniversary ofIndia's Independence and200years ofRampur Rara Library, 2000, Plate No. I.