سعيد بن جبير

Sa'id ibn Jubayr was killed on the orders of al-Hajjaj. al-Tabari reports his death in the year ninety-four AH ¹. Al-Shirazi, in Tabaqat al-Fuqaha', says that he died in the year ninety-five ². The difference is recorded in the museum's data and has not been settled.

Al-Mas'udi narrates a dialogue between him and al-Hajjaj when al-Hajjaj took him captive. He laughed as he was turned to be killed, and prayed that God would not give al-Hajjaj power over anyone after him. Al-Mas'udi says that al-Hajjaj lived after him only fifteen nights ³.

Ibn Hajar writes: Sa'id ibn Jubayr al-Asadi, their mawla, of Kufa — trustworthy, firmly established, a jurist, of the third layer; his narrations from 'A'isha and Abu Musa and the like are mursal; he was killed at the hands of al-Hajjaj in 95 AH before completing fifty years of age ⁴. The Kashif al-Dhahabi material embedded in this edition adds: he narrated from Ibn Abbas and Abd Allah ibn Mughaffal; al-A'mash and Abu Bishr narrated from him, and it is said he was killed in Sha'ban as a martyr ⁴.

Ibn Hajar reports the scholars' questions about whom Sa'id heard from the Companions: Abu Dawud said he heard from Amr ibn Hurayth, but hearing was not established for him from Abd Allah ibn Mughaffal, Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him) or Abu Musa; Ahmad is cited that his narration from 'A'isha is mursal ⁴.

Sa'id ibn Jubayr was one of the great jurists of Kufa in the generation after the Companions. He narrated from Ibn Abbas and other Companions, and was killed by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf around the year 95 of the Hijra ⁴.

• Taqrib al-Tahdhib, entry 2278 (Majmu'at al-kutub scan, p. 223).
• On his killing: al-Taqrib and al-Shirazi give 95 AH; al-Tabari gives 94 — the divergence is recorded in the data and unsettled.
• "Thabat" in al-Taqrib's description means precision and strong retention.