As for the copies that were destroyed, Islamic traditions say that Abdallah Ibn Masud, Ubay Ibn Kab, and Ali, Muhammads cousin and son-in-law, had preserved versions that differed in some ways from the Uthmanic text. Muslim scholars record certain of the differences between the versions; those recorded consist almost entirely of orthographic and lexical variants, or different verse counts. All three (Ibn Masud, Ubay Ibn Kab, and Ali) are recorded as having accepted the Uthmanic text as final,[citation needed] as there is no record of any of them objecting to the Uthmanic text, and even when Ali was the Caliph, he made no move to impose any changes to the Uthmanic text. Uthmans version was written in an older Arabic script that left out most vowel markings; thus the script could be interpreted and read in various ways. This basic Uthmanic script is called the rasm; it is the basis of several traditions of oral recitation, differing in minor points. The Quran is always written in the Uthmanic Rasm (Rasm al Uthman). In order to fix these oral recitations and prevent any mistakes, scribes and scholars began annotating the Uthmanic rasm with various diacritical marks indicating how the word was to be pronounced. It is believed[by whom?] that this process of annotation began around 700 AD, soon after Uthmans compilation, and finished by approximately 900 AD. The Quran text most widely used today is based on the Rasm Uthmani (Uthmanic way of writing the Quran) and in the Hafs tradition of recitation, as approved by Al-Azhar University in Cairo in 1922. (For more information regarding traditions of recitations, see Quranic recitation, below.)
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