a funeral procession. All along the road he would speak to us and remind us until we reached the graveside. When he sat down he continued addressing us until we rose and made our way back, and he was one who mentioned Allah profusely (1).

It is also related from Saʿīd that he said, “I would love for people to take whatever knowledge I possess, for it weighs on me” (2).

Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrates from Abū Ḥaṣīn: “I came to Saʿīd ibn Jubayr in Mecca and said, ‘That man is on his way’—meaning Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allah—‘and I do not trust him concerning you. So heed my advice and leave.’ He replied, ‘By Allah, I have fled so much that I am now ashamed before Allah.’ I said, ‘Indeed, I see you just as your mother named you—Saʿīd (happy)’ (3). When Khālid entered Mecca he sent for him and seized him.

Aḥmad relates: Ibrāhīm ibn Khālid told us, Umayya ibn Shibl told us, from ʿUthmān ibn Būdhawayh, who said: “I was with Wahb and Saʿīd ibn Jubayr on the Day of ʿArafah at the palm-grove of Ibn ʿĀmir. Wahb asked him, ‘O Abū ʿAbd Allah, how long has it been since you first feared al-Ḥajjāj?’ He replied, ‘I left my wife while she was pregnant, and the child that was in her womb has now come to me, his face already showing.’ Wahb then said, ‘Those who came before you—whenever one of them was afflicted, he would count it as ease, and whenever ease befell him, he would count it as affliction’ (4).