Sa'id ibn Iyas al-Jariri

Sa'id ibn Iyas al-Jurayri, Abu Mas'ud of Basra, was an accredited hadith imam whom Ahmad ibn Hanbal called "the hadith scholar of Basra". He died in 144 AH. ¹

He narrated from Abu al-Tufayl 'Amir ibn Wathila, Abu 'Uthman al-Nahdi, 'Abdallah ibn Shaqiq, Abu Nadra, Ibn Burayda and others; Ibn al-Mubarak, Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal, Isma'il ibn 'Ulya, Yazid ibn Harun, 'Isa ibn Yunus, Yahya al-Qattan and Muhammad ibn 'Abdallah al-Ansari narrated from him. ²

Abu Hatim reported that his memory changed before his death and some narrated from him while he was confused, but when Ahmad asked Ibn 'Ulya whether al-Jurayri had truly become confused he answered "No — the old man grew frail". Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani preferred him to Sulayman al-Taymi because he combated the Qadariyya. Among his unusual reports preserved in Muslim are "if allegiance is sworn to two caliphs, kill the later one" and "do not say peace be upon you, for it is the greeting of the dead" — both of which the two Sahihs narrated from him. ²