and ʿUrwah; al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad; Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; and Sulaymān ibn Yasār, the freedman of Maymūnah.

Musʿab ibn al-Zubayr said: “In their day Khārijah ibn Zayd and Ṭalḥah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwf were the two to whom people turned for legal verdicts; everyone deferred to their opinions. They would allocate inheritances among the heirs—houses, palm-groves, and other assets—and they drew up legal documents for the public (1).

Maʿn al-Qazzāz narrated, on the authority of Zayd ibn al-Sāʾib:
‘Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik granted Khārijah ibn Zayd a sum of money, and he (Khārijah) distributed it’ (1).

Al-Wāqidī said: Mūsā ibn Najīḥ related to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā—who was the son of Zayd ibn Thābit—that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz wrote ordering that Khārijah ibn Zayd be given whatever had been withheld from him in the state register.

Khārijah then went to Abū Bakr ibn Ḥazm and said, “I dislike that the Commander of the Believers should be blamed on my account for this, when I have peers. If the Commander of the Believers extends this to all of them, I will accept it; but if he singles me out, I would rather he did not.”

ʿUmar wrote back: “The treasury cannot bear that; had it been able, I would have done so.” (1)

Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿIjli said: “Khārijah ibn Zayd was a Medinan, a Successor, and reliable.” (1)

Ibn Isḥāq said: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿAmrah al-Anṣārī told me, “I heard Khārijah ibn Zayd say: ‘I remember when we were young lads in the time of ʿUthmān, and the most agile of us was the one who could leap over the grave of ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn and clear it.’” (2)

Al-Wāqidī said: Ismāʿīl ibn Muṣʿab related to me, from Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā ibn Zayd ibn Thābit, from Khārijah ibn Zayd ibn Thābit, who said: “I saw in a dream as though I had built …”