Among those who narrated from him were ʿAmr ibn Murrah, Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, and al-Aʿmash.
He was counted among the devout scholars; it is said that, of all the people, only he and Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī survived the turmoil of Ibn al-Ashʿath. His narrations are preserved in the major Islamic collections.
He was open-handed and generous, rode horses, and took part in military campaigns.
Shuʿbah reported—from Abū Isḥāq, from Khaythamah—that he said: “When my father was born, my grandfather named him ʿAzīz. He then mentioned that to the Prophet ﷺ, who said, ‘Call him ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.’” (1)
It is also related that when al-Musayyab had a son born to him in Kūfah, Khaythamah purchased a wet-nurse for the child and sent her to him. (2)
Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif said, “Khaythamah and Ibrāhīm were the two Kufans I admired most.” (3)
Shuʿbah narrated—from Nuʿaym ibn Abī Hind—who said: “I saw Abū Wāʾil at Khaythamah’s funeral, riding a donkey and crying, ‘Alas, what a loss!’—or words to that effect.” (4)
It is reported from Khaythamah that he met thirteen Companions, none of whom had dyed his grey hair.

116 – Saʿīd ibn Jubayr ibn Hishām al-Wālibī, their freedman (ʿ)
The Imām, ḥadith master, Qurʾān reciter, exegete, martyr; Abū Muḥammad—some say Abū ʿAbd Allāh—al-Asadī, al-Wālibī by alliance, the Kufan, one of the luminaries.