'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [‎253] (414/612)

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Here the sheikh paused and Salim said to him, ff God reward
you, for you are a Fakih of a noble stamp ! Is there any
thing that we can do for you, or any particular object wherein
we may assist you He replied in the negative; so we
took leave of him, mutually congratulating one another.
Ihe eminent Seyyid Salim-bin-Sultan was very circum
spect until he was attacked with the sickness of which he
died. On his journeys from one place to another, whenever
food was brought to him, he would not partake of it until
some one else had eaten of it first, dreading treachery. He
was more suspicious of friends than of enemies, and when a
visitor entered his room he seized the hilt of his dagger,
fixed his eyes upon the person, and did not remove them
until the close of the interview. I spent one night with
him it was the night before the 14th of Ramadhan, a.h.
12b0 [19th August, 1815]. A third part of the night having
passed in conversation, he remarked, " How is it that I do
not hear the cry of the watchman from the Eastern fort ?
My brother Said has imprisoned therein some refractory
men of the Benu-'Utt&b and a number of their notables."
(lliey belonged to el-Kuweit and el-Bahrein, and among
them were Ibn-SaUimah, el-Kuweity, and 'Abdu-'r-Rahman,
succeeding generations. A commission, composed of the surviving
KurrA and of the best instructed As-hah, was accordingly charged
with the task of gathering together all the fragments of the sacred book
into one volume. This prototype, revised under the care of the said
commission, Abu-Bekr confided to the safe keeping of Hafsah, the
daughter of 'Omar, the Prophet's wife," {Bist. des Arabes, vol. iii. p.
379). In a subsequent 'part of his history Abulfeda says : " When
'Othman succeeded, finding that various readings were in the hands of
the people, he caused a copy to be made from that which Ilafsah had,
and^sent it everywhere, superseding all others." {Apud Pocock, Speci
men Hist. Arab., p. 348).
The alleged assertion of the Wahhubis, that 'Othman took advantage
of his position on this occasion to omit certain passages from the Kuran,
which they profess to have recovered, is hardly met by the arguments
of their ultra-orthodox opponent in the narrative.