—Zayd; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhramī; Abū ʿAwanah; Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah; and many others.

Ibn Saʿd said, “He was reliable and narrated abundantly.”

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal remarked, “He was trustworthy and virtuous, and he held the judgeship of Medina.”

Ibn Maʿīn, Abū Ḥātim, and a number of other critics likewise declared him “reliable.”

Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah reported: “I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī being asked, ‘Did Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm hear from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar?’ He replied, ‘There is no evidence that he heard from him.’ He then added, ‘He met none of the Companions.’”

I say: his narration from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar is found in both Ṣaḥīḥ collections (1).

Abū Ḥātim transmitted from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh that “Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm did not teach hadith in Medina; for that reason its people did not record from him, nor did Mālik take anything from him. Only Shuʿbah and Sufyān heard from him in Wāsiṭ, and Ibn ʿUyaynah in Mecca.”

Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd related that his father observed continual fasting for forty years before his death.

Ḥajjāj al-Aʿwar said: “Whenever Shuʿbah mentioned Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm he would say, ‘My beloved Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to me—he fasts perpetually and completes a full recitation of the Qur’an every day and night.’”

Maʿn, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Muslim ibn Bānak, said: “I saw Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm delivering judgments in the mosque.”

Ibn ʿUyaynah observed: “After Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm was removed from the judiciary, he continued to be held in awe just as he had been while he was judge.”

Al-Shāfiʿī said: “Someone I do not suspect informed me, on the authority of Ibn Abī Dhīb, that Saʿd ibn…"