Among those who passed away the same year were: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ḥimṣī, Aflah ibn Ḥumayd, Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr, and Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt.
166 – Abū Sinān al-Burjumī Saʿīd ibn Sinān (D, T, Q)
The shaykh, imām, ascetic, and hadith scholar Abū Sinān Saʿīd ibn Sinān al-Burjumī al-Shaybānī was a Kufan teacher who later settled in Rayy and performed the pilgrimage every year.
He transmitted hadith from al-Ḍaḥḥāk, Ṭāwūs, al-Shaʿbī, ʿAmr ibn Murrah, and a number of others.
Those who narrated from him include Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān, Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī, Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, Zayd ibn Ḥabbāb, Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd, Bakr ibn Bakkār, Abū Nuʿaym, and many more.
Abū Ḥātim graded him reliable.
Abū Dāwūd said, “Trustworthy, one of the distinguished people.”
Ibn Ḥibbān wrote, “He was a devout and virtuous worshipper.”
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal commented, “Righteous, though he did not present hadith well.”
Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim observed, “A great deal of his hadith is not corroborated.”
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Jawharī related: “I heard Ibn ʿUyaynah say, ‘Who is Abū Sinān—meaning Saʿīd ibn Sinān? If I had authority over him I would imprison him and discipline him.’”
Ibn Saʿd noted, “A Kufan who lived in Rayy, he had a bad temperament and made the pilgrimage every year.”
Al-Khaṭīb and others added, “He also resided in Qazwīn.”
As for Saʿīd ibn Sinān Abū Mahdī, he was a well-known native of Ḥimṣ.