Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth—reporting from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father—said:
ʿUthmān withheld his stipend from him for two consecutive years (1).

Yahya al-Himmānī—through Shurayk, from Abū Isḥāq—narrated that Ibn Masʿūd appointed al-Zubayr to lead the funeral prayer over him.

ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah related:
Ibn Masʿūd died in Medina and was buried in al-Baqīʿ in the year 32 AH. He was slender, of short stature, and notably dark-skinned. A number of scholars have dated his death to that same year.

ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allah and others said that he lived into his mid-sixties, while Yahya ibn Abī ʿUtbah put his age at sixty-three. Both he and Yahya ibn Bukayr held that he died in 33 AH. I say: it is likely that he passed away at the beginning of that year. Some have stated that he died three years before ʿUthmān (2).

Aḥmad ibn Salāmah and several others informed us, through Abū Jaʿfar al-Ṣaydalanī; Fāṭimah bint ʿAbd Allah transmitted to us; Ibn Raydhah transmitted to us; al-Ṭabarānī transmitted to us; ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and Bishr both said:
Abū Nuʿaym reported to us; al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, who said:

A man came to ʿUmar and said, “I have just come from a man who dictates Qur’an copies from memory.” ʿUmar was alarmed and said, “Woe to you! Consider what you are saying,” and he grew angry. The man replied, “I have told you nothing but the truth.”

ʿUmar asked, “Who is he?”
He answered, “ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd.”

ʿUmar said, “I know of no one more entitled to do that than he. Let me tell you about ʿAbd Allah: One night we stayed in Abū Bakr’s house discussing something the Prophet ﷺ needed. Afterwards we went out, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ walking between me and Abū Bakr. When we reached the mosque, we found a man reciting, and the Prophet ﷺ stood listening to him. I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, will you delay the night prayer?’ He nudged me with his hand and said, ‘Be quiet.’ The man continued reciting, then bowed,