Aḥmad said, “There was nothing objectionable about him, yet his brother had a keener mind and a wider command of the books than he.” (1)
Al-ʿIjlī remarked, “There is no harm in him; he served as a judge in Wāsiṭ.” (2)
It is reported that he died in 201 AH, at al-Mubārak. (3)
186 – Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī, Saʿīd ibn Aws * (D, T)
The Imām, the erudite scholar, the linguistic authority of the Arabs: Abū Zayd Saʿīd ibn Aws ibn Thābit ibn Bashīr, grandson of the Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. A native of Basra, he was a grammarian and the author of several works.
Born: in the early 120s AH.
He transmitted ḥadīth from: Sulaymān al-Taymī, ʿAwf al-Aʿrābī, Ibn ʿAwn, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqama, Ruʾba ibn al-ʿAjjāj, Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ, Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūba, ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd the Qadarī, and others.
Those who narrated from him include: Khalaf ibn Hishām al-Bazzār—who recited to him—and Abū ʿUbayd.