The Compilation of the Qur'an

al-Haytham b. Ayyūb > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd > Ibn Shihāb > ʿUbaydullāh b. al-Sabbāq > Zayd b. Thābit

Abu Bakr sent to me news of the killing of the people of Yamamah, so I went to him and 'Umar was with him. He said, "Indeed, the killing on the day of Yamamah was so severe that it extinguished the reciters of the Quran, and it presented the Hadiths at length."

أَخْبَرَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ السَّبَّاقِ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ

أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مَقْتَلَ أَهْلِ الْيَمَامَةِ فَأَتَيْتُهُ وَعِنْدَهُ عُمَرُ فَقَالَ «إِنَّ الْقَتْلَ قَدِ اسْتَحَرَّ يَوْمَ الْيَمَامَةِ بِقُرَّاءِ الْقُرْآنِ وَسَاقَ الْحَدِيثَ بِطُولِهِ» مُعَادٌ