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This dataset contains the results of my literature study on the traditions relating the instruction of the Prophet Muḥammad, on his deathbed, to bring him writing materials so that he could prepare a document for his community. The traditions, found in Classical Arabic Muslim ḥadīth collections in the field of history, Sīra, Qur'anic exegesis, jurisprudence, among others, have been studied with the isnād-cum-matn analysis.The accompanying article “Untangling the “Unwritten Documents” of the Prophet Muḥammad. An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis of Interwoven Traditions”, Religions (12: xxx) explores the document motif, that appears in a number of accounts with different settings, characters and details on the nature of the document itself. This article examines whether there exists a direct relationship between the different accounts and, if so, what does this mean. It will show that additional motifs have been added to this tradition during its transmission process and that some of these motifs can be attributed to regionalisation or specific transmitters.This dataset contains the following documents:1. “Group1_IA_isnad_bundle_IbnAbbas_traditions_simplified”. This diagram is a simplified representation of the chains of transmission showing only the earliest generations of transmitters of all the traditions attributed to the Medinan Quran scholar `Abd Allah b. `Abbas (d. 67/686-7).2. “Group1a_IA1-3_isnad_bundle_IbnAbbas_SaidbJubayr1”. The first part of the detailed diagram with the chains of transmission of all Ibn `Abbas traditions attributed to the Kufan scholar Sa`id b. Jubayr (d. 94/714).3. “Group1b_IA1-3_isnad_bundle_IbnAbbas_SaidbJubayr2”. The second part of the detailed diagram with the chains of transmission of all Ibn `Abbas traditions attributed to the Kufan scholar Sa`id b. Jubayr (d. 94/714).4. “Group1a_IA1-3_matn_IbnAbbas_SaidbJubayr” gives an overview of all differences between the traditions of Sa`id b. Jubayr from Ibn `Abbas.5....