Sa`id b. Jubayr

d. 94 AH

Successors

Al-Tabari (D. 310 AH)

Sunni Scholars

Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, Haydarabad: Da'irat al-Ma`arif al-Nizamiyyah (12 vols), 1325-7 AH, vol. 4, p. 13

Quoted from al-Tabari that he was reliable and an authority over Muslims.

Positive
Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani, Taqrib al-Tahdhib, Unidentified Edition, p. 133

Sa`id was reliable, trustworthy, a jurist (faqih) from the third [tabaqah]. He was killed in front of al-Hajjaj [b. Yusuf al-Thaqafi] in 95 AH when he was not even fifty years of age.

Positive
Al-Khazraji, Ahmad b. `Abd Allah, Khulasat Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal, Cairo: al-Matba`ah al-Khayriyyah, 1322/1904, p. 116

Quoted from al-Lalaka'i that Sa`id b. Jubayr was reliable, an imam, and an authority. Ibn Mihran has said that when Sa`id died there was no one in the world who was not in need of his knowledge.

Positive
Al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, Haydarabad: Da'irat al-Ma`arif al-Nizamiyyah, 1333 AH, vol. 1, p. 65

Al-Dhahabi has gone to great lengths in his praise for Sa`id b. Jubayr.

Positive