During the caliphate of ʿUthmān, multiple copies of the muṣḥaf were prepared and sent to different regions so that Muslims could benefit from an authoritative written text. This stage concerns the preservation and communal transmission of the Qur’an.
Stabilization of arrangement means that dissemination was not an invitation to reorder individual passages whenever someone preferred another thematic sequence. The text was transmitted as a recognizable muṣḥaf, not as a collection endlessly reorganized by readers.
The historical distinction remains important: earlier collection and the later sending of official copies are separate stages. Both belong to the broader concern of safeguarding and transmitting the Qur’anic text.