1430 — Abū Bakr Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamīd al-Wāsitī narrated to us: Ya'qūb al-Dawraqī narrated to us: I heard Abd al-Rahmān ibn Mahdī say, “Had Uthmān (may Allah be pleased with him) possessed no virtues besides these two, they would have sufficed him: his offering up his own blood to spare the blood of the Muslims, and his compilation of the Quran.”