Those who narrated from him include his maternal cousin ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbbās, Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdī Karib, Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Shaqīq ibn Salamah, and others. Only a few hadiths are traced back to him.

Muslim relates—through the isnād of Ibn Shihāb, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl—that Ibn ʿAbbās reported that Khālid ibn al-Walīd, who was called “the Sword of Allah,” told him:

“He entered the house of his aunt Maymūnah in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and found a ḍabb (roasted spiny-tailed lizard) that her sister Ḥufaydah bint al-Ḥārith had brought from Najd. She set it before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, but he withdrew his hand. Khālid asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, is it forbidden?’ He replied, ‘No, but it is not a food found in my people’s land, and I simply feel a dislike for it.’ So I pulled it toward me (1) and ate it while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked on and did not forbid me (2).”

Hishām ibn Ḥassān transmitted—from Ḥafṣah bint Sirīn, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah—that Khālid ibn al-Walīd said, “Messenger of Allah, a shayṭān from the jinn is laying plots against me.” He replied, “Say: ‘I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah which neither a righteous nor a wicked one can surpass, from the evil of whatever He has created in the earth and of whatever emerges …’”