عَنْ أبي عبد الرحمن السُّلَمِيِّ، عن عثمانَ بنِ عفَّانَ رضي الله عنه، عن النبيِّ ﷺ قال: «خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ القُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ».
وفي رواية: «إِنَّ أَفْضَلَكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ القُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ»
117 - The excellence of the Qur’an and the merit of learning and teaching it
Abu ꜤAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī narrated from ꜤUthmān ibn ꜤAffān that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
1. ‘The best of you is the one who learns the Qur’an and teaches it’.
2. Abu ꜤAbd al-Raḥmān taught the recitation of the Qur’an during ꜤUthmān’s reign, up to al-Ḥajjāj’s time.
3. He said: This is what has placed me in this position of mine.
‘Uthmān ibn ‘Affān
Abu ꜤAmr, or Abu ꜤAbdullāh, ꜤUthmān ibn ꜤAffān ibn Abi al-ꜤĀṣ ibn Umayyah ibn ꜤAbd Shams of the Quraysh tribe was the third caliph and known by his nickname Dhul-Nūrayn (i.e. the one with two lights). He was one of the earliest people to embrace Islam, and one of the ten companions of the Prophet given the happy news that they were certain to go to Heaven. He went on the two migrations to Abyssinia and Madinah. He was married to two of the Prophet’s daughters: Ruqayyah, and later Umm Kulthūm. The angels used to be diffident in his presence. He became the third caliph after the martyrdom of ꜤUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in Year 24 AH 645 CE. During his reign, Arminia, Khurāsān, Tunisia and other areas were annexed to the Muslim state. He completed the collation of the Qur’an and unified its copies so that no disagreement could take place in different areas of the state. He was assassinated in Madinah and became a martyr in Year 35 AH 656 CE.
