Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Saʿid—also known as Abu Kharijah al-Khazraji al-Najjari al-Ansari—the scribe of revelation, may Allah be pleased with him.

He transmitted hadith from the Prophet ﷺ and from the Prophet’s two chief Companions, and portions—perhaps the whole—of the Qur’an were recited before him. His virtues are many.

Those who narrated from him include: Abu Hurayrah; Ibn ʿAbbas—who also recited to him; Ibn ʿUmar; Abu Saʿid al-Khudri; Anas ibn Malik; Sahl ibn Saʿd; Abu Umamah ibn Saʿd; ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid al-Khatmi; Marwan ibn al-Hakam; Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib; Qabisah ibn Dhuʾayb; his two sons, the jurist Kharijah and Sulayman; Aban ibn ʿUthman; ʿAtaʾ ibn Yasar and his brother Sulayman ibn Yasar; ʿUbayd ibn al-Sabbāq; al-Qasim ibn Muhammad; ʿUrwah; Hujr al-Madari (1); Tawus; Busr ibn Saʿid; and many others.

Among those who recited the Qur’an to him were Ibn ʿAbbas, Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sulami, and more than one other.

He was counted among the bearers of the authoritative proof, and whenever ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab went on Hajj he appointed him as his deputy over Madinah. He was also the one who oversaw the distribution of the spoils on the day of Yarmuk.

His father had been killed before the Hijrah, on the Day of Buʿath (2), so Zayd was raised an orphan.

Exceptionally intelligent, he embraced Islam when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ migrated.

(1) The nisba is derived from Madrakjabal, a locality in Yemen; the printed edition omits the phrase “Urwa and Hajar al-Madri.” (2) Buʿath is a place two days’ journey from al-Madinah; it was the battlefield—and the day named after it—where the Aws fought the Khazraj. Al-Bukhari records it (7/85, at the beginning of “The Merits of the Ansar”) through the chain ʿUbayd b. Ismaʿil → Abu Usama → Hisham b. ʿUrwa → his father → ʿAisha, who said: “The Day of Buʿath was a day Allah brought forward for His Messenger. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived, their chiefs were already divided, their nobles killed and wounded, and Allah thereby prepared them to enter Islam.”
سَعِيْدٍ، وَأَبُو خَارِجَةَ الخَزْرَجِيُّ، النَّجَّارِيُّ، الأَنْصَارِيُّ، كَاتِبُ الوَحْيِ ﵁. حَدَّثَ عَنِ: النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَعَنْ صَاحِبَيْهِ، وَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِ القُرْآنَ بَعْضَهُ أَوْ كُلَّهُ، وَمَنَاقِبُهُ جَمَّةٌ. حَدَّثَ عَنْهُ: أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ، وَابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ - وَقَرَآ عَلَيْهِ - وَابْنُ عُمَرَ، وَأَبُو سَعِيْدٍ الخُدْرِيُّ، وَأَنَسُ بنُ مَالِكٍ، وَسَهْلُ بنُ سَعْدٍ، وَأَبُو أُمَامَةَ بنُ سَهْلٍ، وَعَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ يَزِيْدَ الخَطْمِيُّ، وَمَرْوَانُ بنُ الحَكَمِ، وَسَعِيْدُ بنُ المُسَيِّبِ، وَقَبِيْصَةُ بنُ ذُؤَيْبٍ، وَابْنَاهُ؛ الفَقِيْهُ خَارِجَةُ، وَسُلَيْمَانُ، وَأَبَانُ بنُ عُثْمَانَ، وَعَطَاءُ بنُ يَسَارٍ، وَأَخُوْهُ؛ سُلَيْمَانُ بنُ يَسَارٍ، وَعُبَيْدُ بنُ السَّبَّاقِ، وَالقَاسِمُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَعُرْوَةُ، وَحُجْرُ المَدَرِيُّ (١) ، وَطَاوُوْسٌ، وَبُسْرُ بنُ سَعِيْدٍ، وَخَلْقٌ كَثِيْرٌ. وَتَلاَ عَلَيْهِ: ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ، وَأَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ، وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ. وَكَانَ مِنْ حَمَلَةِ الحُجَّةِ، وَكَانَ عُمَرُ بنُ الخَطَّابِ يَسْتَخْلِفُهُ إِذَا حَجَّ عَلَى المَدِيْنَةِ. وَهُوَ الَّذِي تَوَلَّى قِسْمَةَ الغَنَائِمِ يَوْمَ اليَرْمُوْكِ. وَقَدْ قُتِلَ أَبُوْهُ قَبْلَ الهِجْرَةِ يَوْمَ بُعَاثٍ (٢) ، فَرُبِّيَ زَيْدٌ يَتِيْماً. وَكَانَ أَحَدَ الأَذْكِيَاءِ، فَلَمَّا هَاجَرَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَسْلَمَ
(١) نسبة إلى مدركجبل: بلد باليمن، وقد سقط من المطبوع: " عروة وحجر المدري ". (٢) هو موضع على ليلتين من المدينة المنورة، وفيه كانت الوقيعة واليوم المنسوب إليه بين الاوس والخررج. وأخرج البخاري ٧ / ٨٥ في أول مناقب الانصار، من طريق عبيد بن إسماعيل، حدثنا أبو أسامة، عن هشام بن عروة، عن أبيه، عن عائشة ﵂ قالت: كان يوم بعاث يوما قدمه الله لرسوله ﷺ، فقدم رسول الله ﷺ وقد افترق ملؤهم، وقتلت سرواتهم، وجرحوا، فقدمه الله لرسوله ﷺ في دخولهم للاسلام.

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