ʿUthmān narrated to us, through Jarīr, through Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, through Murrah, who said: “I went to Ibn Masʿūd’s house looking for him, but was told, ‘He is with Abū Mūsā.’ So I went to Abū Mūsā and found him together with Ḥudhayfah, while Abū Mūsā was saying to Ḥudhayfah, ‘You are the one who knows the report.’ Ḥudhayfah answered, ‘Yes indeed; I disliked that people should start saying, ‘the recitation of So-and-so’ and ‘the recitation of So-and-so.’” In other words, he made it clear that ascribing a reading to any individual is something other than the Qur’an itself.