Reports from Said bin Jubayr

Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) says: Trusting in Allah is the foundation of faith.

Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) used to say: O Allah! I ask You for the quality of true reliance upon You, and I ask You for a good opinion of You.

Bukayr bin Atiq says: I gave Sa'id bin Jubayr a draught of honey to drink in a cup. He said to me: By Allah! I will be questioned about this too. I said: Why is that? He said: I drank it and took pleasure in it.

Umar bin Dharr says: I read the letter that Sa'id bin Jubayr wrote to my father. Written in it was: Every day in which a Muslim lives is a gain for him.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "Rather, it was the plotting of the night and the day" [Saba: 33], says: This refers to the passing of the day and the night.

Sa'id bin Jubayr says: The one who remembers Allah among the heedless is like one who protects those seeking reward from Allah.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "And it is not amusement" [Al-Tariq: 14], says: It is not play.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "So away with the companions of the Blaze" [Al-Mulk: 11], says: This refers to a valley in Hell.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "O My servants who believe, indeed My earth is vast" [Al-Ankabut: 56], says: Allah's earth is very vast; whoever is ordered to commit a sin should flee.

Al-Qasim bin Abi Ayyub says: Sa'id bin Jubayr repeated the verse of the Qur'an "And fear a Day on which you will be returned to Allah" [Al-Baqarah: 281] more than twenty times.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "Indeed, we have turned to You" [Al-A'raf: 156], says: We have repented.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "Rather, man will be a witness against himself" [Al-Qiyamah: 14], says: Man is a witness against himself, even if he offers excuses.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "Without doubt, theirs is the Fire, and they will be abandoned" [Al-Nahl: 62], says: They will be forgotten and they will be left to waste.

Sa'id bin Jubayr, in explaining the verse of the Qur'an "And We record what they have sent ahead and their traces" [Ya Sin: 12], says: The practices that they established.