Abu Nuʿaym and ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī said that he died in the year 93 AH.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal stated: Hammad ibn Khālid al-Khayyāṭ narrated to us that Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab passed away in 95 AH, yet the first report is sounder.
As for the claim of al-Madāʾinī and others that he died in 105 AH, this is an error. Some scholars followed him in that, and it is also a report ascribed to Ibn Maʿīn.
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim inclined to this view as well—Allah knows best.
End of the biography; all praise is due to Allah.
89 – ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayyah, the Umayyad
The Caliph, the jurist, Abū al-Walīd al-Umawī.
Born: 26 AH.
He heard ḥadith from ʿUthmān, Abū Hurayrah, Abū Saʿīd, Umm Salamah, Muʿāwiyah, Ibn ʿUmar, Barīrah, and others.
I have included him because of the breadth of his knowledge.
Among those who transmitted from him are ʿUrwah, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah, Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, al-Zuhrī, Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd, Yūnus ibn Maysarah, and many others.
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