Those who narrated from him (1) include: al-Walīd ibn Muslim, al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā al-Khushani, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq al-Marwazi, Abū Mushir, Abū al-Yamān al-Ḥimṣī, Ibn al-Mubārak, Wakīʿ, Ibn Shābūr, Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl, ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Abū al-Mughīrah ʿAbd al-Quddūs, Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Wuḥāẓī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ the secretary, Abū Naṣr al-Tammār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf al-Tinnīsī (2), Abū al-Naḍr Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Faradīsī (3), Ibrāhīm ibn Hishām al-Ghassānī, Zayd ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbayd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr—the tall Qur’an-reciter—, ʿAmr ibn Abī Salamah al-Tinnīsī, al-Walīd ibn Mazīd al-ʿUdhri, and others.
Among his contemporaries who transmitted from him were Shuʿbah and al-Thawri.
After al-Awzāʿī’s passing, the mantle of scholarly leadership in Syria devolved upon him, and he lived for ten years after al-Awzāʿī.
Abū Mushir relates: Saʿīd told us, “We were perplexed about the brisk trot (harwala), so we asked ʿAṭāʾ, and he replied, ‘There is no blame upon you.’”
Abū Mushir added: He heard nothing else from ʿAṭāʾ besides this report.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zabr said: We used to sit with Makḥūl, and Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz was with us; he would serve water in Makḥūl’s study circle.
Abū Mushir also narrated to me from Saʿīd, who said, “In the early mornings I would sit with Ibn Abī Mālik; after noon I would keep company with Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd Allāh; and after ʿAṣr with Makḥūl.”
Al-Dārimī records: Marwān ibn Muḥammad informed us, “Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us, saying, ‘I have never written down a hadith.’” That is, he relied on memorization.
And Abū Mushir said: I heard him—