Hazrat Marwan ibn al-Hakam

Scribe of the Caliph

Marwan ibn al-Hakam was a cousin of Uthman رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Uthman ibn Affanرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُThird Caliph; Dhun-Nurayn; compiled the Qur'an into one codexKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · Muhajirun and served as his chief scribe through the most troubled years of his caliphate. 1 History of Islam · Vol 1 · pp. 419, 422 — Najeebabadi — Marwan as Uthman's cousin and chief scribe. With al-Miswar ibn Makhrama, he is a joint transmitter of the long narration of the Treaty of Hudaybiyya preserved in the books of hadith. 2 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 1 · pp. 77–79 — Kandhlawi — Marwan and al-Miswar ibn Makhrama narrating the Hudaybiyya account.

Governor of Madinah

As governor of Madinah under Mu’awiya رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyanرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُA scribe of the revelation; long governor of SyriaNarrators of Hadith, he tested Abu Hurayra رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Abu Hurayraرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُThe greatest narrator of hadith; companion of the SuffaNarrators of Hadith’s consistency by recording his hadith once and asking him to recite them again a year later — finding the two narrations identical. 3 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 3 · pp. 307 — Kandhlawi — Marwan tests Abu Hurayra's hadith consistency a year apart and finds them identical. He briefly became caliph at the close of his life, and died in Damascus.