Narrated Anas bin Malik: When the Prophet died, none had collected the Qur'an but four persons;: Abu Ad-Darda'. Mu'adh bin Jabal, Zaid bin Thabit and Abu Zaid. We were the inheritor (of Abu Zaid) as he had no offspring .
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 61: Virtues of the Qur'an, Hadith #526
Narrated Anas bin Malik: When the Prophet died, none had collected the Qur'an but four persons;: Abu Ad-Darda'. Mu'adh bin Jabal, Zaid bin Thabit and Abu Zaid. We were the inheritor (of Abu Zaid) as he had no offspring .
This hadith is from the book of Virtues of the Qur'an in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 526 in book 61 of volume 7.
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