Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40537 — Reports on Uthman (may Allah be)

Zadhan narrates from Ulaym: We were with him on a roof, and a Companion was also with him, during the days of the plague. Funeral processions began to pass by us, and he (the Companion) said: "O plague, take me!" Ulaym said: "Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) not say: 'None of you should wish for death, for death is the cause of the cutting off of deeds, and a person is not sent back so that he may please Allah'?" He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Seek death quickly because of six things: because of the rule of fools, because of the increase of the special guards of kings, because of the selling of judgments, because of blood becoming cheap, and because of young boys who make the Qur'an into flutes, whom people will put forward in prayer so that they may recite the Qur'an to them in the manner of singing, even though they are the least of them in understanding.'"