Yusuf bin Mahak reported,

I was with Ayesha, Umm Muiminin , when an Iraqi man came to her and asked, "Which shroud is best?"She replied, "Goodness, what does it matter to you?"He said, "Umm Muiminin, show me your copy of the Quran."She asked, "Why?"He said, "So that I may arrange the Quran according to it, for it is recited without proper order."She said, "And what does it matter to you which part you recite first? What was first revealed of it was a surah from the Mufassal section, mentioning Paradise and the Fire. Then, when the people had turned to Islam, the rulings of the lawful and the unlawful were revealed. Had the first thing revealed been 'Do not drink wine,' they would have said, 'We will never give up wine.' And had it been revealed 'Do not commit fornication,' they would have said, 'We will never give up fornication.' Indeed, there was revealed in Mecca to Muhammad ﷺ, while I was a young Jariya at play, 'Rather, the Hour is their appointed time, and the Hour is more calamitous and more bitter' [Qamar 54:46]. And Surah al-Baqarah and Surah an-Nisa were revealed only while I was with him."He said, "So she brought out the Quran for him and dictated to him the verses of the surahs."

حدثنا إبراهيم بن موسى أخبرنا هشام بن يوسف أن ابن جريج أخبرهم قال وأخبرني

يوسف بن ماهك قال

إني عند عائشة أم المؤمنين رضي الله عنها إذ جاءها عراقي فقال أي الكفن خير قالت ويحك وما يضرك قال يا أم المؤمنين أريني مصحفك قالت لم قال لعلي أولف القرآن عليه فإنه يقرأ غير مؤلف قالت وما يضرك أيه قرأت قبل إنما نزل أول ما نزل منه سورة من المفصل فيها ذكر الجنة والنار حتى إذا ثاب الناس إلى الإسلام نزل الحلال والحرام ولو نزل أول شيء لا تشربوا الخمر لقالوا لا ندع الخمر أبدا ولو نزل لا تزنوا لقالوا لا ندع الزنا أبدا لقد نزل بمكة على محمد ﷺ وإني لجارية ألعب {بل الساعة موعدهم والساعة أدهى وأمر} وما نزلت سورة البقرة والنساء إلا وأنا عنده قال فأخرجت له المصحف فأملت عليه آي السور