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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
tirmidhi:2907 – Maḥmūd b. Ghaylān > Abū Dāwud > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Saʿd b. ʿUbaydah > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

from 'Uthman bin 'Affan that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The best of you is he who learns the Qur'an and teaches it." Abu 'Abdur-Rahman said: "So that is why I sit at this seat of mine." And he taught the Qur'an during the time of 'Uthman until Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf came. (Sahih)  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:٢٩٠٧ – حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ أَنْبَأَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فَذَاكَ الَّذِي أَقْعَدَنِي مَقْعَدِي هَذَا وَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ فِي زَمَنِ عُثْمَانَ حَتَّى بَلَغَ الْحَجَّاجَ بْنَ يُوسُفَ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ

See similar narrations below:

Collected by Bukhārī, Ibn Mājah, Dārimī, Bayhaqī, Aḥmad's Zuhd
bukhari:5027 – Ḥajjāj b. Minhāl > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Saʿd b. ʿUbaydah > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > ʿUthmān

The Prophet ﷺ said, "The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it."  

البخاري:٥٠٢٧ – حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ ؓ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ قَالَ وَأَقْرَأَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فِي إِمْرَةِ عُثْمَانَ حَتَّى كَانَ الْحَجَّاجُ قَالَ وَذَاكَ الَّذِي أَقْعَدَنِي مَقْعَدِي هَذَا  

ibnmajah:213 – Azhar b. Marwān > al-Ḥārith b. Nabhān > ʿĀṣim b. Bahdalah > Muṣʿab b. Saʿd from his father

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'The best of you is the one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it.' " 'Then he (Mus'ab) took me (the narrator) by the hand and made me sit here, and I started to teach Qur'an.'"  

ابن ماجة:٢١٣ – حَدَّثَنَا أَزْهَرُ بْنُ مَرْوَانَ حَدَّثَنَا الْحَارِثُ بْنُ نَبْهَانَ حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمُ بْنُ بَهْدَلَةَ عَنْ مُصْعَبِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ خِيَارُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ قَالَ وَأَخَذَ بِيَدِي فَأَقْعَدَنِي مَقْعَدِي هَذَا أُقْرِئُ  

darimi:3381 – al-Ḥajjāj b. Minhāl > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Saʿd b. ʿUbaydah > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > ʿUthmān

[Machine] Narrated by the Prophet ﷺ, he said, "Indeed, the best among you are those who learn the Quran or teach it." He mentioned, "Recite Abu 'Abdul Rahman in the presence of 'Uthman bin 'Affan until Al-Hajjaj came." He said, "That is what fixed me in this position."  

الدارمي:٣٣٨١ – حَدَّثَنَا الْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ أَخْبَرَنِي عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «إِنَّ خَيْرَكُمْ مَنْ عَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ أَوْ تَعَلَّمَهُ» قَالَ «أَقْرَأَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فِي إِمْرَةِ عُثْمَانَ حَتَّى كَانَ الْحَجَّاجُ» قَالَ «ذَلكَ أَقْعَدَنِي مَقْعَدِي هَذَا»  

bayhaqi:2272 – Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān> ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar b. Darastawayh > Yaʿqūb b. Sufyān > al-Ḥajjāj And Muslim b. Ibrāhīm Waʾabū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī Waʾabū ʿUmar Wādam > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Saʿd b. ʿUbaydah > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-Sulamī > ʿUthmān

The Prophet ﷺ said, "The best among you (Muslims) are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it." (Using translation from Bukhārī 5027)   

البيهقي:٢٢٧٢ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْقَطَّانُ بِبَغْدَادَ أنبأ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرِ بْنِ دَرَسْتَوَيْهِ ثنا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ثنا الْحَجَّاجُ وَمُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَأَبُو الْوَلِيدِ الطَّيَالِسِيُّ وَأَبُو عُمَرَ وَآدَمُ قَالُوا ثنا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عَلْقَمَةُ بْنُ مَرْثَدٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعْدَ بْنَ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ خَيْرَكُمْ مَنْ عَلِمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَتَعَلَّمَهُ قَالَ وَأَقْرَأَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ فِي إِمْرَةِ عُثْمَانَ حَتَّى كَانَ الْحَجَّاجُ قَالَ وَذَاكَ أَقْعَدَنِي مَقْعَدِي هَذَا  

رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ حَجَّاجِ بْنِ مِنْهَالٍ
ahmad-zuhd:2132 – ʿAbdullāh from my father > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar And Bahz > Shuʿbah Waḥajjāj > Shuʿbah > ʿAlqamah b. Marthad > Saʿīd b. ʿUbaydah > Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥman > ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "The best among you is the one who learns the Quran and teaches it." Bahz, in his narration, also said, "The best among you is the one who learns the Quran and teaches it." Muhammad bin Ja'far and Hujjaj, in their narration, said that Abu Abdur Rahman As-Salami said, "That is the one who made me sit in this place."  

الزهد لأحمد:٢١٣٢ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ وَبَهْزٌ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ وَحَجَّاجٌ حَدَّثَنِي شُعْبَةُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَلْقَمَةَ بْنَ مَرْثَدٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ عُبَيْدَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عَفَّانَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ خَيْرَكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ» قَالَ بَهْزٌ فِي حَدِيثِهِ «خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ» قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ وَحَجَّاجٌ فِي حَدِيثِهِمَا قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السَّلَمِيُّ فَذَلِكَ الَّذِي أَقْعَدَنِي هَذَا الْمَقْعَدَ