Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran

Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran 8ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْوَرَّاقِ قَالَ عَرَضْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) كِتَاباً فِيهِ قُرْآنٌ ٠ُعَشَّرٌ بِالذَّهَبِ وَكُتِبَ فِي آخِرِهِ سُورَةٌ بِالذَّهَبِ فَأَرَيْتُهُ إِيَّاهُ فَلَ٠ْ يَعِبْ فِيهِ شَيْئاً إِلا كِتَابَةَ الْقُرْآنِ بِالذَّهَبِ وَقَالَ لا يُعْجِبُنِي أَنْ يُكْتَبَ الْقُرْآنُ إِلا بِالسَّوَادِ كَ٠َا كُتِبَ أَوَّلَ ٠8.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Safwan from Muskan from Muhammad ibn al-Warraq who has said the following: “Once I showed to Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) a copy of the Holy Quran decorated with writings of gold in a stamp form and at the end of chapters there were writings with gold.

He did not criticize anything in it except the writing of the Holy Quran with gold saying, ‘I do not like the writing of the Holy Quran in anything except black ink, just as it was written the first time.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/519))