Qays bin Marwan reported,

He came to Umar and said, "Commander of the Believers, I have come from Kufa, where I left behind a man who is dictating copies of the Quran from memory."Umar grew angry and swelled with rage until he nearly filled the space between the two sides of the saddle. He said, "Woe to you, who is he?"He replied, "Abdullah bin Masud."Umar's anger kept subsiding and easing away until he returned to his normal state. Then he said, "Woe to you, by Allah, I do not know of anyone left among the people who is more deserving of that than him. Let me tell you about that.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to stay up at night with Abu Bakr discussing some matter concerning the Muslims. One night he stayed up with him, and I was with them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out, and we went out with him. There was a man standing in the mosque praying. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stopped to listen to his recitation. When we were almost able to recognize him, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Whoever wishes to recite the Quran fresh as it was revealed, let him recite it according to the recitation of Ibn Umm Abd.'Then the man sat down and began to supplicate, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept saying to him, 'Ask and you will be given. Ask and you will be given.'"Umar said, "I said to myself, by Allah, I will go to him in the morning and give him the good news."He continued, "So I went to him in the morning to give him the good news, but I found that Abu Bakr had already gone ahead of me and given him the good news. By Allah, I never raced him to any good deed except that he beat me to it."

حدثنا أبو معاوية حدثنا الأعمش عن إبراهيم عن علقمة قال جاء رجل إلى عمر رضي الله عنه وهو بعرفة قال أبو معاوية وحدثنا الأعمش عن خيثمة

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أنه أتى عمر رضي الله عنه فقال جئت يا أمير المؤمنين من الكوفة وتركت بها رجلا يملي المصاحف عن ظهر قلبه فغضب وانتفخ حتى كاد يملأ ما بين شعبتي الرحل فقال ومن هو ويحك قال عبد الله بن مسعود فما زال يطفأ ويسرى عنه الغضب حتى عاد إلى حاله التي كان عليها ثم قال ويحك والله ما أعلمه بقي من الناس أحد هو أحق بذلك منه وسأحدثك عن ذلك كان رسول الله ﷺ لا يزال يسمر عند أبي بكر رضي الله عنه الليلة كذاك في الأمر من أمر المسلمين وإنه سمر عنده ذات ليلة وأنا معه فخرج رسول الله ﷺ وخرجنا معه فإذا رجل قائم يصلي في المسجد فقام رسول الله ﷺ يستمع قراءته فلما كدنا أن نعرفه قال رسول الله ﷺ من سره أن يقرأ القرآن رطبا كما أنزل فليقرأه على قراءة ابن أم عبد قال ثم جلس الرجل يدعو فجعل رسول الله ﷺ يقول له سل تعطه سل تعطه قال عمر رضي الله عنه قلت والله لأغدون إليه فلأبشرنه قال فغدوت إليه لأبشره فوجدت أبا بكر قد سبقني إليه فبشره ولا والله ما سبقته إلى خير قط إلا وسبقني إليه