Narrated Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Numayr, both saying: Waki' narrated to us, from al-A'mash, from Shaqiq, from Masruq, who said: We used to visit Abdullah ibn Amr and converse with him — Ibn Numayr said: in his presence — and one day we mentioned Abdullah ibn Mas'ud. He said: "You have mentioned a man whom I will never cease to love, because of something I heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: 'Take the Qur'an from four: from Ibn Umm Abd — and he began with him — and Mu'adh ibn Jabal, and Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudhayfah.'"