Zayd bin Thabit al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him), Abu Said, also said to be Abu Kharijah

Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Hadrami narrates: I heard Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Numayr saying: "Zayd bin Thabit bin al-Dahhak (may Allah be pleased with him)."

Uqbah bin Fakih narrates: I went to Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), and he came out wearing a lower garment with a spear in his hand. I said: "Abu Kharijah, what is the need for a spear at this hour?" He said: "I was searching for this vile creature, for the killing of which Allah records a good deed and through it erases a sin, namely the gecko."

It is narrated from Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) that Marwan said to Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him): "O Abu Sa'id!"

Kharijah bin Zayd (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates: The people said to Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him): "O Abu Sa'id!"

Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Hadrami narrates: I heard Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Numayr saying: "The kunyah of Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) was Abu Sa'id."

Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father that he said: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Madinah, I was eleven years old.

Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from his father Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted me to take part in the fighting on the day of the Battle of the Trench (Khandaq), and he clothed me in a Coptic garment.

Mus'ab bin Sa'd narrates that Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Who among the people is the best writer?" The people said: "Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him)."

Mus'ab bin Sa'd narrates that Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Call Zayd bin Thabit for me, the scribe of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)."

Al-Sha'bi narrates that Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) said four takbirs in the funeral prayer for his mother, and I did not consider it to be any fixed limit. Then a mount was brought for him, and Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) held his stirrup. Zayd said to him: "Leave it, let it be." Ibn Abbas said: "This is how we treat the senior scholars."

Sa'id bin Abd al-Aziz narrates that the scholars after Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) included Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud, Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda', Sayyiduna Salman and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with them); then the scholar after them was Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him); then after Zayd came Sayyiduna Ibn Umar and Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them).

Muhammad bin Ja'far bin Abdullah bin al-Zubayr narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) appointed Abdullah bin al-Arqam (may Allah be pleased with him) as his scribe. He used to write letters to the kings, and such was his trustworthiness that when he wrote to one of the kings, he would write it, then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would order him to fold it, then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would seal it without reading it, because of his trust in him. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) also appointed Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) as his scribe; he wrote down the revelation and also wrote letters to the kings. When both Abdullah bin al-Arqam and Zayd bin Thabit were absent and he (peace and blessings be upon him) needed to write to a commander of the armies or a king, or to have a deed granting land written for someone, he would order whoever was present to write it. Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab, Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan, Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib, Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit, al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah, Mu'awiyah bin Abi Sufyan and Khalid bin Sa'id bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them), as well as other Arabs whose names have been mentioned, wrote for him (peace and blessings be upon him).

Ammar bin Abi Ammar narrates: We were sitting with Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) at the funeral of Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: "Today a great deal of knowledge has been buried."

Yahya bin Sa'id narrates that when Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) died, Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Today the scholar of this Ummah has died, and perhaps Allah will make up for his loss in Ibn Abbas."

Sa'id bin al-Musayyab narrates: I attended the funeral of Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him). When he was lowered into his grave, Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "O people, whoever would like to know how knowledge departs, this is how knowledge departs. By Allah, today a great deal of knowledge has gone." Sa'id bin al-Musayyab said: And the one who said that a great deal of knowledge had gone was Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) himself.

Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Hadrami narrates: I heard Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Numayr saying: "Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) died in the year 45 AH, and Kharijah bin Zayd bin Thabit died in the year 99 AH."

Abu al-Zinba' Rawh bin al-Faraj narrates from Yahya bin Bukayr: "Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) died in the year 45 AH, in the fifty-sixth year of his life. Some people say that he died in the year 48 or 59 AH, because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted him to take part in the fighting on the day of the Battle of the Trench when he was fifteen years old, and the Trench took place in Shawwal of the year 4 AH. There is disagreement about his death."

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It reached me that Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) died in the year 51 AH.

Al-Haytham bin Adi narrates: "Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) died in the year 55 AH."