We were sitting with Ibn Masud when Khabab came and said, "Abu Abdul-Rahman, can these young men recite the way you recite?"Ibn Masud replied, "If you wish, I will instruct one of them to recite to you."Khabab said, "Yes."Ibn Masud said, "Recite, Alqama."Then Zayd bin Hudayr, the brother of Ziyad bin Hudayr, said, "You order Alqama to recite when he is not the best reciter among us?"Ibn Masud replied, "If you wish, I will tell you what the Prophet ﷺ said about your people and his people."So I recited fifty verses from Surah Maryam.Abdullah said, "What do you think?"Khabab answered, "He has recited well."Abdullah said, "I do not recite anything but that he recites it too."Then he turned toward Khabab, who was wearing a gold ring, and said, "Is it not time for this ring to be cast off?"Khabab replied, "You will not see it on me after today," and he took it off.
كنا جلوسا مع ابن مسعود، فجاء خباب، فقال: يا أبا عبد الرحمن، أيستطيع هؤلاء الشباب أن يقرؤوا كما تقرأ؟ قال: أما إنك لو شئت أمرت بعضهم يقرأ عليك؟ قال: أجل، قال: اقرأ يا علقمة، فقال زيد بن حدير، أخو زياد بن حدير: أتأمر علقمة أن يقرأ وليس بأقرئنا؟ قال: أما إنك إن شئت أخبرتك بما قال النبي ﷺ في قومك وقومه؟ فقرأت خمسين آية من سورة مريم، فقال عبد الله: كيف ترى؟ قال: قد أحسن، قال عبد الله: ما أقرأ شيئا إلا وهو يقرؤه، ثم التفت إلى خباب وعليه خاتم من ذهب، فقال: ألم يأن لهذا الخاتم أن يلقى؟ قال: أما إنك لن تراه علي بعد اليوم، فألقاه.
Bukhari narrated it in Maghazi (4391) from Abdan, from Abu Hamza, from Amash, from Ibrahim, from Alqama, and he related it.In the same meaning is also what was narrated from Abdullah bin Masud, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade us from the gold ring, or the gold band."Ahmad narrated it (3715), and Tabarani in al-Kabir (10/259), and Abu Yaala (5152), all of them through the route of Shuba, from Yazid bin Abu Ziyad, from Abu Saad, from Abu al-Kanud, from Abdullah bin Masud, and he related it.Yazid bin Abu Ziyad is Hashimi, daif by the consensus of the people of knowledge, and his teacher Abu Saad is Azdi, unknown.