He retorted, “And are you his equal?! I place every person in this house under oath: let each of you take hold of a piece of it.” So they tore the garment to shreds.

ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdalah relates—on the authority of Abū Wāʾil, who, I think, said:

When death approached Khalid he declared, “I pursued death in every place where it was expected, yet it was only decreed that I die on my bed. Of all my deeds, nothing gives me more hope after tawḥīd (monotheism) than a night I spent, shield in hand, the sky drenching us with rain as we waited for dawn to strike the unbelievers.”

Then he said, “When I die, take my weapons and my horse and make them equipment in the path of Allah.”

When he passed away, ʿUmar accompanied his funeral and recalled Khalid’s words:

“There is no blame on the household of al-Walid if they shed tears over Khalid, so long as it is not al-naqʿ (throwing dust on the heads) or al-laqlaqah (loud wailing).” (1)

It is further reported with a defective chain that ʿUmar attended Khalid’s funeral in Medina, where Khalid’s mother was lamenting him, saying:

“You are better than a thousand thousand men
when the faces of warriors are cast to the ground.”