Zayd ibn Thâbit , (7th century) was the personal scribe of Mahomet and a ansâr.

It was only eleven years old when the prophet flees of Mecque. It taken share, as soon as the age allowed him, with the combat delivered for the new religion, and was with the Bataille of Uhud like to all the following ones.

Following the Al-Yamâmah battle against Musaylima, during which nearly 1200 Moslems including 39 large Companions and 70 Masters-récitateurs of Coran lost the life, the caliph Abou Bakr feared that the Coran was not lost. He then entrusted to Zayd the responsibility to gather the scattered fragments, and to compile the whole of the verses in only one book: it is this authentic copy which forms Coran such as we know it.