I said to Abu Saeed Khudri, "Write it down for us."He replied, "We will not write it down for you, nor will we make it a Quran. Rather, take from us as we used to take from the Prophet of Allah ﷺ."Abu Saeed used to say, "Narrate hadith to one another, for one hadith reminds you of another."
قلت لأبي سعيد الخدري: أكتبنا. فقال: لن نكتبكم، ولن نجعله قرآنا، ولكن خذوا عنا كما كنا نأخذ عن نبي الله ﷺ. وكان أبو سعيد يقول: تحدثوا؛ فإن الحديث يذكر بعضه بعضا.
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Tabarani related it in al-Awsat (2498), Abu Muslim told us, he said, Abdul-Rahman told us, he said, Kahmas bin Hasan told us, from Abu Nadra, and he mentioned it. Its chain is hasan. Abdul-Rahman is Ibn Hammad bin Shuayb al-Shuaybi, who is truthful. Tabarani's teacher is Abu Muslim al-Kashshi, one of the well-known and eminent memorizers of hadith. Haythami mentioned it in al-Majma (1/217), then said, "Its narrators are the narrators of the sahih."A note. Abu Abbas Qurtubi said, "This prohibition came early on, and it was so that nothing other than the Quran would be mixed with it. Then, when that danger was averted, writing was permitted, just as the Prophet ﷺ permitted it for Abu Shah at the Farewell Pilgrimage when he said, 'Write it down for Abu Shah.' So our scholars considered this to be an abrogation of that earlier prohibition."I say, in the chapter following this one, among the narrations to come, there will be evidence supporting the correctness of what Qurtubi has said, Allah willing.