Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36082 — Reports on Tustar

Mutarrif bin Malik said: I was with Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him) at the conquest of Tustar. At a place called al-Sus we found Daniel (peace be upon him). When drought struck the people of al-Sus, it was their custom to bring him out and seek rain through him. With him we found sixty jars with their mouths sealed. We opened one jar from the nearest of them, one from the middle of them and one from the farthest of them, and in each jar there were ten thousand. Hammam said: I think he only said ten thousand. With him we also found two sheets of linen and a box containing a book. The first to come upon him was a man of Bal'anbar whose name was Harqus. Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) gave him the two sheets and two hundred dirhams. Later those two sheets were asked back from him, but he refused to give them and tore them into turbans for his companions. The narrator said: With us in this battle was a Christian hired worker whose name was "Nu'aym". He said: "Sell me this box with what is in it." He was told: "Take it, if there is no gold, silver or Book of Allah in it." It was looked into, and in it was the Book of Allah. So the people disliked selling the Book, and they sold him the box for two dirhams and gave him the Book as a gift. Qatadah said: From then on, the sale of copies of the Qur'an came to be regarded as disliked, because Sayyiduna al-Ash'ari and his companions regarded it as disliked.