and said, “Who instructed you to turn my bed toward the qiblah? Was it Nāfiʿ?” They replied, “Yes.” Saʿīd said to him, “If I were not already facing the qiblah and upon the true faith, then—by Allah—your turning my bed would do me no good.” (1)

Ibn Abī Dhīʾb narrated from his brother al-Mughīrah:

He entered with his father to visit Saʿīd, who had fallen unconscious, so they turned him toward the qiblah. When he regained consciousness he asked, “Who did this to me? Am I not a Muslim man? My face is turned toward Allah wherever I may be.” (2)

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; Muḥammad ibn al-Qays the oil-seller related to me, from Zurʿah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān:

Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab said, “O Zurʿah, I call you to witness against my son Muḥammad that he must not inform anyone about me. Four men to carry me to my Lord are enough.” (3)

Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd reported:

When Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab was in the throes of death, he left behind some gold dinars and said, “O Allah, You know that I kept them only to safeguard my honor and my religion.” (4)

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Farwah narrated to me:

I witnessed the day Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab died, in the year 94 AH. I saw that his grave had been sprinkled with water, and that year was called “the Year of the Jurists” because so many of them died in it. (5)

Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī said: Several jurists died in the year 94 AH, among them Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab.

Saʿīd ibn ʿUfair, Ibn Numayr, and al-Wāqidī likewise dated Ibn al-Musayyab’s death to that year,

and Ibn Saʿd mentioned no one else.