Note 454 — Chapter XXXI · DOMESTIC EVENTS DURING THE CALIPHATE OF OTHMAN. HIS GROWING UNPOPULARITY.
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On the text of the Corân, and the history of this recension, see the Excursus on the ‘Sources for the Biography of Mahomet,’ in the Life of Mahomet. The manner in which the Abbasside faction perverted the facts and turned the charge to malignant purpose against the Omeyyad house, will be understood from the section on the Corân in the Apology of Al Kindy (Smith and Elder, 1882), pp. 25 et seq. The charge against Al Hajjâj of having altered the text is equally groundless. See Ibid. p. xi.