Abū Muḥammad al-Ramhurmuzi said: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā in the city of Sābūr related to me; ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī narrated to us, saying:
“We were sitting with Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam when a man came and asked him either for a book to examine or to relate some reports to him, but he refused. Another man then asked the same thing, and he obliged him. The first objected, ‘I asked you and you did not answer me, while he asked and you answered him. That is not the proper way to treat knowledge’—or words to that effect.
“Ibn Abī Maryam replied, ‘If you can tell al-Shaybānī from al-Saybānī, and Abū Ḥamzah from Abū Jamrah—both of whom transmit from Ibn ʿAbbās—then we would narrate to you and single you out just as we have singled him out.’” (1)
I say: In Saʿīd’s transmissions one finds singular reports, a consequence of the breadth of his learning.
Abū Saʿīd ibn Yūnus said: “Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī Maryam, the jurist, was the client (mawlā) of Abū Fāṭimah; some say he was Abū Fuṭaymah, the client of Abū al-Ḍubayʿ, the client of Banū Jumah.
Born: 144 AH.
Died: 224 AH. (2)
The compilers of the Six Books included his narrations.
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Faqīh informed us in his book; ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad informed us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn informed us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad informed us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī informed us; Abū Ismāʿīl al-Tirmidhī narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb and Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us; they said:
Ibn al-Hād narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “When the worshipper prostrates…”