that it is so abundant?”
He answered, “If you guarantee my safety, I will tell you.”
So he assured him, and the physician said, “You killed him while his soul was still in him.” (1)

ʿAbd al-Salam ibn Harb, transmitting from Khusayf, said:
“The one among them most learned in the Quran was Mujahid; the foremost authority on the pilgrimage was ʿAtaʾ; the most knowledgeable regarding what is lawful and unlawful was Tawus; the most expert on the laws of divorce was Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib; and the scholar who combined all of these disciplines was Saʿid ibn Jubayr.” (2)

Abu Usamah, on the authority of al-Aʿmash, related to me from Masʿud ibn al-Hakam, who said:
ʿAli ibn al-Husayn asked me, “Do you sit with Saʿid ibn Jubayr?”
I replied, “Yes.”
He said, “I love his company and his speech.”
Then, pointing toward Kufa, he added, “Those people attribute to us things that we do not possess.” (3)

Jarir, from Ashʿath ibn Ishaq, said:
“It used to be said, ‘Saʿid ibn Jubayr is the master assessor among the scholars.’” (4)

Al-Asbagh ibn Zayd said: “Whenever I asked Saʿid ibn Jubayr about a hadith and he did not wish to relate it to me, he would say instead, ‘How is wheat sold?’”

Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Baraʾ narrated to us; ʿAli ibn al-Madini said:
“Among the students of Ibn ʿAbbas there is none like Saʿid ibn Jubayr.”
It was asked, “Not even Tawus?”
He replied, “Not even Tawus—nor anyone else.”

He was executed in Shaʿban of the year 95 AH. Whoever claims that he lived forty-nine years has accomplished nothing, and we have already quoted his words (5) to his son: “What life is left for your father after seventy?”