The Qur'ān was revealed in the language of Quraish and the Arabs.
Darussalam · Volume 6
66 - THE BOOK OF THE VIRTUES OF THE QUR'ANSahih al-Bukhari Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 4984 ¦ الجزء: 6 ¦ الصفحة: 182
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4984. Narrated Anas bin Mālik: رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: The Caliph 'Uthmān ordered Zaid bin Thābit, Sa'īd bin Al-'Ās, 'Abdullāh bin Az-Zubair and 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Al-Hārīth bin Hishām to write the Qur'ān in the form of a book (Muṣḥaf) and said to them. "In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thābit (Al-Anṣārī) regarding any dialectic Arabic utterance of the Qur'ān, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, for the Qur'ān was revealed in their (Quraish) dialect." So they did it.
4984 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو اليَمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعَيْبٌ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، وَأَخْبَرَنِي أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ: «فَأَمَرَ عُثْمَانُ، زَيْدَ بْنَ ثَابِتٍ، وَسَعِيدَ بْنَ العَاصِ، وَعَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ، وَعَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ الحَارِثِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ، أَنْ يَنْسَخُوهَا فِي المَصَاحِفِ»، وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «إِذَا اخْتَلَفْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ وَزَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ فِي عَرَبِيَّةٍ مِنْ عَرَبِيَّةِ القُرْآنِ فَاكْتُبُوهَا بِلِسَانِ قُرَيْشٍ، فَإِنَّ القُرْآنَ أُنْزِلَ بِلِسَانِهِمْ فَفَعَلُوا»
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