hear from them⦗1⦘.
Abu Hafs al-Fallas said, “I heard Yahya al-Qattan say, ‘Saʿid did not hear from Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Ansari, nor from ʿUbayd Allah, nor from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah.’”
ʿAbdah ibn Sulayman said, “I heard from Saʿid during the period of confusion.”
Yahya ibn Maʿin said, “The most reliable person in what he heard from Saʿid is ʿAbdah.”
Jarrah ibn Makhlad related, “I heard Muslim ibn Ibrahim say, ‘Saʿid ibn Abi ʿArubah once asked me, “Malik, the keeper of Hellfire—what tribe is he from?”’ I understood that this was merely a jest.”
ʿAbdan al-Ahwazi said, “I heard our companions report from Muslim ibn Ibrahim that he said, ‘I had copied Saʿid’s compilations, but my father quarrelled with me, so I stoked the oven and threw them into it.’”
ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi said, “Ghundar heard from Saʿid—that is, during the period of confusion.”
Abu ʿUmar al-Hawdi said, “I entered upon Saʿid ibn Abi ʿArubah intending to hear from him, but I heard strange talk. I heard him recite:
‘The Azd—Azd wide in pride—
They slaughtered a sickly sheep;
They offered me meat—I refused;
They struck me, and I wept.’
So I realised he was confused and took nothing from him.”
Yahya al-Qattan said, “Khalid ibn al-Harith received Saʿid’s narration by dictation, and Sufyan ibn Habib was well versed in the narrations of Shuʿbah and Saʿid.”
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmmar al-Mawsili said, “The reports of Wakīʿ and al-Muʿafa ibn ʿImran from Saʿid amount to nothing; Wakīʿ only heard from him during the confusion.” Wakīʿ said to me, “Do you think I have ever reported from him anything but a sound hadith?”
Wuhayb narrated from Ayyub: “A man will never grasp understanding unless he enters the room of Saʿid ibn Abi ʿArubah.”
Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ansari transmitted from Ibn Abi ʿArubah that he said, “Whoever reviles ʿUthman will be reduced to poverty.”