(8) باب الْقُرَّاءِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
When the Prophet (ﷺ) 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 . (ES)
Reference (ES): Sahih al-Bukhari 5004 (ES)
In-book reference (ES): Book 66, Hadith 26 (ES)
USC-MSA web (English) reference(deprecated numbering scheme): Vol. 6, Book 61, Hadith 526 (ES)