If you remove the dots, then Katheera and Kabeera are written the same way.
Maybe that is how he tried to accommodate them together.
There is also one Hadith which indicates that whenever he found a contradiction,
he kept the Quraish dialect and discarded the others.
Narrated Anas bin Malik :
Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman
came to `Uthman
at the time when the people of Sham and the people of Iraq were Waging war to conquer Arminya and Adharbijan. Hudhaifa
was afraid of their (the people of Sham and Iraq) differences in the recitation of the Qur'an, so he said to `Uthman
, "O chief of the Believers! Save this nation before they differ about the Book (Qur'an) as Jews and the Christians did before." So `Uthman
sent a message to Hafsa
saying, "Send us the manuscripts of the Qur'an so that we may compile the Qur'anic materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you." Hafsa
sent it to `Uthman
. `Uthman
then ordered Zaid bin Thabit
, `Abdullah bin AzZubair
, Sa`id bin Al-As
and `AbdurRahman bin Harith bin Hisham
to rewrite the manuscripts in perfect copies. `Uthman
said to the three Quraishi men, "
In case you disagree with Zaid bin Thabit on any point in the Qur'an, then write it in the dialect of Quraish, the Qur'an was revealed in their tongue." They did so, and when they had written many copies, `Uthman
returned the original manuscripts to Hafsa
. `Uthman
sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur'anic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt. [
Bukhari]
Many scholars say that the Ahruf and Qira'ah are two different things. They say that only the Quraish dialect is currently available and that itself has 7 qira'ah within itself.
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