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Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, Leading tabi'i of Madinah

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ScholarLeading tabi'i of Madinah

Sa'id ibn al-Musayyibسعيد بن المسيب

Approximate dateMadinah

The foremost scholar of the generation that learned from the Companions in Madinah.

Son-in-law of Abu Hurayrah, he gathered the judgments of Umar and the hadith of the Companions, and is counted first among the Seven Jurists of Madinah. When the caliph Abd al-Malik asked for his daughter for his son, he married her instead to a poor student of his.

What grew out of it?

His rulings became a core of the Madinan fiqh that Malik later recorded.

The lesson

He preferred a pious poor man to a prince as a son-in-law.

Who else is linked?

MadinahMalik ibn AnasAbu HurayrahUmar ibn al-KhattabAbd al-Malik ibn MarwanUmayyad Caliphate

Who lived at the same time?

Muhammad ﷺYazid ibn MuawiyahMuawiyah ibn YazidMarwan ibn al-HakamAbd al-Malik ibn MarwanConstans IIAl-Walid ibn Abd al-MalikYazdegerd III

Source: history · Wikipedia

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