Abu al-Shaykh said, “Saʿīd came to Isfahan during the time of al-Ḥajjāj, and the people there took knowledge from him.” (1)
ʿUmar ibn Ḥabīb reported:
“While Saʿīd ibn Jubayr was in Isfahan he would not transmit hadith; when he returned to Kūfa he began to teach. We asked him about that and he replied, ‘Spread your merchandise where it is known.’” (2)
ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib said:
“When Saʿīd ibn Jubayr was in Fārs he would become distressed, saying, ‘No one asks me about anything.’ He could move us to tears, yet before he rose to leave we might already be laughing.”
Shuʿbah narrated from al-Qāsim ibn Abī Ayyūb:
“Saʿīd ibn Jubayr was in Isfahan, and a young Magian servant attended him and would bring him the muṣḥaf in its cover. I heard Saʿīd repeat this verse in prayer some twenty-odd times: ‘And be mindful of a Day when you will be returned to Allah’ [al-Baqara (3): 281].”
Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Khayr informed us, from al-Labbān; al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Jaʿfar related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad related to us; Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rabīʿ al-Sammān related to us; from Abū ʿAwānah, from Isḥāq, the freedman of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Hilāl ibn Yasāf, who said:
“Saʿīd ibn Jubayr entered the Kaʿba and recited the Qur’an in a single rakʿah.” (4)
Al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated from Wiqāʾ ibn Iyās, who said:
“During the month of Ramadan Saʿīd ibn Jubayr would complete the Qur’an between sunset and the night prayer, and they would delay the ʿIshāʾ prayer.” (5)