Abdul Malik orders Hajjaj to prepare Uthman's book for the composition of the Quran. Hajjaj encourages people to "compose the Quran the same way Gabriel did" using certain materials.
====691 Nestorian Catholicos Hananisho====
Catholicos, Hnanicho, encountered 'Abd-al-Malik who asked him, 'What do you think of '''the Arab religion'''?' to which the Catholicos replied: 'It is a religion established by the sword, and not a faith confirmed by divine miracles, as with the Christianity and like the old law of Moses.'
At first Abdul Malik wanted to have his tongue cut out but changed his mind instead to prohibit him from ever seeing him again.