Nuh ibn Yazid (1) narrated—on the authority of Ibrahim ibn Saʿd—that Saʿd died at the age of eighty-two in the year 56 AH. Another opinion places his death in 57 AH. Abu Nuʿaym al-Malaʾi said it was in 58 AH, and Qaʿnab ibn al-Muḥriz concurred; the first view, however, is the sounder one.

In the Musnad of Baqī ibn Makhlad there are 270 hadiths transmitted from him, 38 of which are found in the two Sahih collections.

6 – Saʿīd ibn Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl al-ʿAdawī * (ʿ)

He is Saʿīd, son of ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Riyāḥ ibn Qurṭ ibn Razāḥ ibn ʿAdī ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy ibn Ghālib, known by the kunya Abū al-Aʿwar, a Qurashi of the clan of ʿAdiyy. He is one of the ten who were promised Paradise, one of the earliest Emigrants who fought at Badr, and one of those of whom Allah says, “Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him.” (2)

He fought in the campaigns alongside the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, witnessed the siege of Damascus and its conquest, and he appointed him—