Sa’īd bin Jubayr (665-714), also known as Abū Muhammad, was originally from Kufa, in modern-day Iraq. He was regarded as one of the leading members of the taba'een and was counted by Sheikh al-Tūsi as one of the companions of the fourth Shia Imam, Ali ibn Husayn (d.ca.712). Sa’īd is held in the highest esteem by scholars of the Shi'a and Ahl al-Sunnah Islamic traditions and was considered one of the leading jurists of the time. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalāni and al-Dhahabi praise him greatly in their respective treatises. Events Swithelm succeeded by Sighere and Sebbi as king(s) of Essex Seongnam renamed Hansanju. ... // Events February 28 - An earthquake strikes Syria. ... Kufa (الكوفة al-Kufa in Arabic) is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. ... The Tabaeen (or Followers) are the generation of Muslims that came after the Sahaba. ... Shaikh, also rendered as Sheik, Shaykh or Sheikh (Arabic: شيخ), is a word in the Arabic language meaning elder of a tribe, lord, revered old man, or Islamic scholar. ... Imam (Arabic: إمام , Persian: امام ) is an Arabic word meaning Leader. The ruler of a country might be called the Imam, for example. ... Ali ibn Husayn, Zayn al-Abideen, (Arabic: علي بن حسين زين العابدين) ‎ (658 - 713) was the fourth Shia Imam (see Shia Imams). ... Shia Islam ( Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 20-25% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... There where two Muslim scholars named Ibn Hajar Ibn Hajar Asqalani - Shafii Ibn Hajar Al-Haythami - Shafii, born 909h This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Uthman ibn Qaymaz, Abu Abdullah Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi, ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺑﻦ ﺃﺣﻤﺪ ﺑﻦ ﻋﺜﻤﺎﻥ ﺑﻦ ﻗﻴﻤﺰ ﺍﺑﻮ ﻋﺒﺪ ﺍﷲ ﺷﻤﺲ ﺍﻟﺪﻳﻦ ﺍﻟﺬﻫﺒﻲ the great Shafii hadith master (hafiz) and historian of Islam, born in Damascus in 673/1274. ...

Life

At the battle of Jamājim in 82 AH (699-701), Ibn Ash’ath and his followers, including 100,000 from amongst the mawāli, took on the army of al-Hajjāj (d.714), the governor of the Iraqi provinces during the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I. Within their forces was a group known as the ‘Battalion of Qur’an Reciters’ headed by Kumayl bin Ziyad an-Nakhai and including Sa’īd bin Jubayr. The revolt was brutally put down and Sa’īd was forced to flee to the outskirts of Makkah. He persisted in travelling to Makkah itself twice a year to perform the hajj and umrah and would enter Kufa secretly to help resolve peoples’ religious issues. Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef (661 - June in Taif, 714 in Wasit, Iraq) (Arabic: الحجاج بن يوسف also known as Al Hajjaj bin Yousef Al saqafe) was an important Arab administrator during the Umayyad caliphate. ... The Courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, one of the grandest architectural legacies of the Umayyads. ... Caliph is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ... Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik (Arabic: ) or Al-Walid I (668 - 715) was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 705 - 715. ... Kumayl bin Ziyad an-Nakhai was a confidant amongst the companions of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Caliph and first Shia Imam. ... Mecca or Makkah (in full: Makkah al-Mukkaramah; Arabic مكة المكرمة) is revered as the holiest site of Islam, and a pilgrimage to it is required of all Muslims who can afford to go. ... The Hajj (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), (Turkish: Hac) is the Pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam. ... The Umrah or Umra (Arabic: عمرة ) is a pilgrimage to Mecca performed by Muslims that can be undertaken at any time of the year. ...

Dialogue Between Ibn Jubayr and al-Hajjaj

Sa’īd was finally apprehended and brought before al-Hajjāj. Excerpts from a transcript of their dialogue follows:Sa’īd bin Jubayr entered upon al-Hajjāj, who asked his name (and he knew his name well):

Sa’īd: Sa’īd bin Jubayr.

Al-Hajjaj: Nay, you are Shaqiy bin Kusayr. (al-Hajjāj is playing with words here: Sa’īd means happy and Shaqiy means unhappy; Jubayr means one who splints broken bones and Kusayr means one who breaks them.)

Sa’īd: My mother knew better when she named me.

Al-Hajjāj: You are wretched (shaqayta) and your mother is wretched” (shaqiyat). Then he told him: “By Allah, I will replace your dunya with a blazing Fire.

Sa’īd: If I knew you could do it, I would take you as a God.

Al-Hajjāj: I have gold and wealth.

Bags of gold and silver were brought and spread before Sa’īd bin Jubayr in order to try him. In Islamic terminology, the Arabic word dunya (دنيا) means this world — and its earthly concerns and possessions — as opposed to more spiritual realms, or the hereafter. ...

Sa’īd: O Hajjāj, if you gathered it to be seen and heard in showing off, and to use it to avert others from the way of Allah, then by Allah, it will not avail you against Him in any way. Saying this, he aligned himself towards Qiblah.

Al-Hajjāj: Take him and turn him to other than the Qiblah. By Allah, O Sa’īd bin Jubayr, I will kill you with a killing with which I have not killed any of the people.

Sa’īd: O Hajjāj choose for yourself whatever killing you want, by Allah you will not kill me with a killing except that Allah will kill you with a like of it, so choose for yourself whatever killing you like.

Al-Hajjāj: Turn him to other than the Qiblah.

Sa’īd: Wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah.^[1]

Al-Hajjāj: Put him under the earth.

Sa’īd: From it (the earth) We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time.^[2]

Al-Hajjāj was outdone and ordered the beheading of Sa’īd bin Jubayr. Sa’īd was martyred in the month of Sha’bān, 95 AH (ca. May 714) at the age of 49. Al-Hajjāj is reported to have soon lost his senses and died within a month.

Notes

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See also

• Ibn Abbas
• Kumayl ibn Ziyad

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Bibliography

• al-Mufīd, Kitāb al-Irshād, Ansariyan Publications.
• al-Qarashi, B.S., The Life of Imam Zayn l-‘Abidin, Ansariyan Publications, 2000.
• al-Sayyid, K., Saeed bin Jubayr, Ansariyan Publications, 1996.
• Jafri,S.H.M., The Origins and Early Development of Shi’a Islam, Oxford University Press, 2001
• Madelung, W., The Succession to Muhammad (A study of the early Caliphate), Cambridge University Press, 1997.