Arabic (Original)
قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ أَيُّوبَ عَنْ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَخُطُّونَ إِلَى أَقْوَامٍ مَا هُمْ بِأَعْلَمَ بِحَدِيثِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنَّا قُتِلَ أَبِي يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ احْفِرُوا وَأَوْسِعُوا وَادْفِنُوا الِاثْنَيْنِ وَالثَّلَاثَةَ فِي الْقَبْرِ وَقَدِّمُوا أَكْثَرَهُمْ قُرْآنًا وَكَانَ أَبِي أَكْثَرَهُمْ قُرْآنًا فَقُدِّمَ.
English Translation
He said, Sufyan ibn Uyayna told us, from Ayyub, from Humayd ibn Hilal, from Hisham ibn Amir, who said: 'You go for knowledge to people who are no more knowledgeable of the hadith of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, than we are. My father was killed on the Day of Uhud, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Dig, and make the graves wide, and bury two or three in a grave, and put forward whichever of them knew more of the Qur'an." And my father knew more of the Qur'an than the others, so he was put forward.'