the eminent notable, Abū Saʿīd al-Qurashi, the Umayyad, one of the earliest pioneers of Islam.

It is narrated from Umm Khālid bint Khālid that she said:
“My father was the fifth person to enter Islam. He emigrated to Abyssinia, remained there for some thirteen years, and I myself was born there (1).”

Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUqbah also transmits from Umm Khālid that she said:
“My father was the first to write: bi-smi llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm (‘In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful’).”

It is related that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ appointed him governor of Ṣanʿāʾ, and that Abū Bakr later placed him in command of a division during the Syrian campaign.

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah said: our elders informed us that Khalid killed an idolater, then put on the dead man’s spoils—a garment of brocade or silk. The people began to stare at him while he was with ʿAmr, so ʿAmr said, “Why are you looking at him? Whoever wishes may do what Khalid has done and then wear what he is wearing.”

It is also reported that Khalid—may Allah be pleased with him—was martyred, and that the man who slew him, after later embracing Islam, said, “Who was that man? For I saw a light shining from him up to the sky.”

It is said as well that Khalid ibn Saʿid was handsome and comely; he was killed on the day of Ajnādayn. He had emigrated with Jaʿfar ibn Abī Ṭālib to Medina at the time of Khaybar. His aforementioned daughter lived to an advanced age, surviving until almost the year 90 AH.

His father, Abū Uḥayḥah, had been one of the foremost figures of the pre-Islamic era and died a polytheist before the Battle of Badr.

He left several children, among them: