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2908. 'Uthmān [bin 'Affān] narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "The best of you – or the most virtuous of you – is he who learns the Qur'an and teaches it." (Saḥīḥ) This Hadīth is Hasan Saḥīḥ. This is how 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin Mahdī and others reported it from Sufyān Ath-Thawrī: "From 'Alqamah, from Marṭhad, from Abū 'Abdur-Raḥmān, from 'Uthmān from the Prophet ﷺ." And Sufyān did not mention "from Sa'd bin 'Ubaidah" in it. Yaḥyā bin Sa'eed Al-Qaṭṭān reported this Hadīth from Sufyān and Shu'bah, from 'Alqamah bin Marṭhad, from Sa'd bin 'Ubaidah, from Abū 'Abdur-Raḥmān, from 'Uthmān, from the Prophet ﷺ. (Another chain of narration) Muḥammad bin Bash-shār said: "Sufyān's companions did not mention in it from Sufyān: 'From Sa'd bin 'Ubaidah.'" Muḥammad bin Bash-shār said: "And it is more correct." [Abū 'Eisā said:] Shu'bah added "Sa'd bin 'Ubaidah" to the chain of this Hadīth, and it appears that the narration of Sufyān is more appropriate. 'Ali bin 'Abdullāh said: "Yaḥyā bin Sa'eed said: 'No one is equal to Shu'bah to me, but when Sufyān contradicts him, then take the saying of Sufyān.'" [Abū 'Eisā said:] I heard 'Ammār mentioning that Waki' said: "Shu'bah said: 'Sufyān has a better memory than me, there is nothing that Sufyān narrated to me from anyone, and then I later asked him about it, except that I found it just as he had narrated it to me.” There are narrations on this topic from ‘Alī and Sa’d.