It is a good report, and its chain of transmission is spotless.⦗1⦘
154 – Khālid, son of the caliph Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān, the Umayyad * (d)
The leading authority, the accomplished scholar, Abū Hāshim al-Qurashī al-Umawī, of Damascus; brother of the caliph Muʿāwiyah and of the jurist ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
He transmitted from his father, and from Dihyah—though he never met him.
Among those who narrated from him are: Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah, ʿUlayy ibn Rabāḥ, al-Zuhrī, and Abū al-Aʿyas al-Khawlānī.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: “He was renowned for his learning and for composing poetry.”
It is also said that Dār al-Ḥijāra was his residence, and that today it has become a qaysariyya where ingots of gold are traded.
Abū Zurʿa of Damascus remarked: “He and his two brothers were among the righteous members of the community.”⦗2⦘
Al-Zuhrī further related that Khālid would fast on the ‘festive’ days—Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
I add: He once rewarded a poet with one hundred thousand coins for these lines in his praise:
“I asked Liberality and Generosity, ‘Are you both freeborn?’ …
They answered in unison: ‘Indeed, we are his slaves.’