He transmitted from Ibn ʿAbbās—reporting from him abundantly and with precision—
and from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, ʿĀʾishah, ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, and, as recorded in the Sunan of al-Nasāʾī, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī; as well as from Abū Hurayrah and Abū Masʿūd al-Badrī (the latter with a mursal, i.e., broken, chain).
He also narrated from Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn al-Zubayr, al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Qays, Anas, and Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī.
Among the Successors he took reports from were figures such as Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, himself counted among the senior scholars.
He learned the recitation of the Qurʾān under Ibn ʿAbbās, and Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ—together with a number of others—recited it back to him.
Those who transmitted ḥadith from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr include: Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān; Ādam ibn Sulaymān (the father of Yaḥyā); Ashʿath ibn Abī al-Shaʿthāʾ; Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī; Bukayr ibn Shihāb; Thābit ibn ʿAjlān; Abū al-Miqdām Thābit ibn Hurmuz; Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīrah; Abū Bishr Jaʿfar ibn Abī Waḥshiyyah; Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit; Ḥabīb ibn Abī ʿAmrah; Ḥassān ibn Abī al-Ashras; Ḥuṣayn; al-Ḥakam; Ḥammād; Khuṣayf al-Jazarī; Dharr al-Hamdānī; Zayd al-ʿAmmī; Sālim al-Afṭaṣ; Salamah ibn Kuhayl; Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Mughīrah; Sulaymān al-Aḥwal; Sulaymān al-Aʿmash; Simāk ibn Ḥarb; Abū Sinān Ḍirār ibn Murrah; Ṭāriq ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif; Abū Sinān Ṭalḥah ibn Nāfiʿ; Abū Ḥarīz ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥusayn; his son ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān.