Those who narrated from him include al-Hasan al-Basri, Bakr ibn ʿAbdillah al-Muzani, Thabit, Qatadah, ʿAli ibn Zayd ibn Judʿan, ʿAtaʾ ibn Abi Maymunah, and many others besides them.

He was declared trustworthy by Ahmad al-ʿIjli and others, and Abu Hatim said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Thabit al-Bunani related: “When Abu Rafiʿ was set free he wept and said, ‘I used to have two rewards, but one of them has now gone.’”

I say: He was among the foremost of the early Tābiʿīn, on a level with Abu al-ʿĀliyah and his peers.

He died in the early nineties AH.

164 – Khalid ibn Muhajir, son of the Sword of Allah, Khalid ibn al-Walid al-Makhzumi * (M)

He narrated from Ibn ʿAbbas, Ibn ʿUmar, and ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Abi ʿAmrah.

Among those who transmitted from him were al-Zuhri, Muhammad ibn Abi Yahya al-Aslami, Ismaʿil ibn Rafiʿ, and Thawr ibn Yazid.

He was a man of virtue, a poet, and greatly respected.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar said: “Muʿawiyah suspected him of dispatching a physician to poison his uncle ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Khalid, so Muʿawiyah executed the physician.”

Others said: Rather, it was Khalid—the son of the one who had been poisoned—who killed the physician, whose name was Ibn Athal.

Consequently, Khalid ibn Muhajir broke with the Umayyads and joined Ibn al-Zubayr. (1)

Muslim recorded his narrations.