Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab clad in several Herati shirts, and he would also wear those costly white mantles. (1)

Abān ibn Yazīd reported: Qatādah said, “I asked Saʿīd about praying on a cushioned carpet, and he answered, ‘It is an innovation.’ (2)”

Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated from ʿImrān ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, who was told by Ghunaymah, Saʿīd’s maidservant: “He would not allow his daughter to play with ivory figurines, but he did give her permission to have the kabar—that is, a drum. (2)”

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways related from Muḥammad ibn Hilāl, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, that he said, “No trade appeals to me more than the cloth trade, provided no oaths are sworn in it. (2)”

Muṭarrif ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated: Mālik said that Burd, the client of Ibn al-Musayyab, once said to Saʿīd, “I have never seen anything finer than what these people are doing!”
Saʿīd asked, “And what is it that they do?”
He replied, “One of them performs the noon prayer, then stands with his feet together until he performs the afternoon prayer.”
Saʿīd exclaimed, “Woe to you, Burd! By Allah, that is not worship. Worship is to reflect on Allah’s command and to refrain from what Allah has forbidden. (3)”

Salām ibn Miskīn narrated from ʿImrān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khuzaʿī, who said: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab declared, “I have never feared anything for myself as much as I fear women.”
They said, “Abū Muḥammad, a man like you does not desire women, nor do women desire him.”
He replied, “That is exactly what I am telling you.” He was an elderly man with weak eyesight. (4)