214 – His brother ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī
He narrated from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl, Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAmrah, and a number of others.
Those who transmitted from him include ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ—one of his own teachers—Shuʿbah, ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, al-Layth ibn Saʿd, and Ibn ʿUyaynah.
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal declared him reliable, and Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān said, “He was keen-hearted and radiant.”
He died in 139 AH.
215 – Their brother Saʿd ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī
He is counted among the trustworthy narrators.
He reported from Anas ibn Mālik and al-Sāʾib ibn Yazīd.
Those who narrated from him include Shuʿbah, Ibn al-Mubārak, and others.
Al-Nasāʾī said of him, “He is not strong.”
By Allah’s help and His enabling grace, the fifth volume of “Lives of the Noble Notables” is now complete.
Next follows the sixth volume, which opens with the biography of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim.
Volume Six.