Sa`eed Ibn Al-Musayyib

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January 3, 2019
Ghuraba Magazine
January 3, 2019

Sa`eed Ibn Al-Musayyib

Sa`eed Ibn Al-Musayyib: (637-715/ 14-94H)

Sa`eed Ibn Al-Musayyib , was one of, if not the greatest, scholar of Al-Tabi`een (the generation immediately after the companions). He said about himself: no one left (alive) knows the verdicts the Prophet (pbuh), Abu Bakr and Umar, issued more than I.

• He said: The slaves of Allah can not honor themselves with anything better than obeying Allah and insult it with anything more than disobeying him. It is enough comfort for the Muslim to see his enemies indulged in disobeying Allah.

• He also said: I would travel for days and nights searching for one hadith.

• Burd (the servant of Sa`eed) said: For forty years, it was never called for the prayer (adhan) but Sa`eed would already be in the mosque.

• Sa`eed said: I have performed Hajj forty times.

• When he was sick, a man came in and asked him about a hadith, so he asked the people around him to get help him into a sitting position. When they tried to provide an excuse for him due to his illness, he said: I feel embarrassed to mention a hadith while lying down.

• The following is a message to every parent, to make it easy for those who propose to marry their daughters, to choose the God-fearing person and make it easy by not burdening his back with many unreasonable requests.

Ibn Abi Wada`ah (one of the students of Sa`eed) was missing for a few days from the circle of Sa`eed, so when Sa`eed saw him and asked him where he was, he said that he was busy with the burial of his wife. So Sa`eed asked him if he got married again, Ibn Abi Wada`ah said: who would marry me his daughter and all I have is two or three dirhams (very little money). Sa`eed said: I marry you my daughter. Since Sa`eed knew that he was a Godfearing and knowledgeable man. After getting married, and Ibn Wada`ah was getting dressed to go to the circle of his teacher for knowledge, Sa`eed’s daughter asked him where he was going. After he told her, she said: “Stay here, I will give you the knowledge of Sa`eed.” As a side note, the Khalifah of the Muslims then, Abdulmalek Ibn Marwan, had proposed to the daughter of Sa`eed for his son, Waleed, but Ibn Al-Musayyib refused.

• This is one of millions of the great people that this faith has produced, and knowing them has become imperative to take this Ummah out of this ditch that it has put itself in. May Allah have mercy on Sa`eed Ibn Al-Musayyib.

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