Rāshid, the freedwoman of Khalid ibn Maʿdān, related that Khalid ibn Maʿdān said: “I met seventy of the Prophet’s Companions.” (1)

Baqiyyah narrated from Bahīr ibn Saʿd who said: “I never saw anyone more devoted to knowledge than Khalid ibn Maʿdān; he kept his learning in a codex fastened with buttons and loops.” (1)

He also said: “Al-Walid wrote to Khalid ibn Maʿdān about a legal question, and Khalid answered him; thereafter Al-Walid obliged the judges to adopt Khalid’s opinion.” (1)

Baqiyyah reported from ʿUmar ibn Juʿthum who said: “Whenever Khalid ibn Maʿdān sat down, none of us dared mention worldly matters in his presence, out of awe for him.” (2)

Baqiyyah transmitted from Ḥabīb ibn Ṣāliḥ who said: “We never feared anyone among the people as we feared Khalid ibn Maʿdān.” (2)

Baqiyyah further said: “Al-Awzāʿī held Khalid ibn Maʿdān in great esteem. He asked us, ‘Does he have any surviving offspring?’ We replied, ‘He has a daughter.’ He said, ‘Go to her and ask her about her father’s practice.’ Thus it was at Al-Awzāʿī’s urging that we visited her.” (3)

Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr said: “Whenever the people were called out for battle, Khalid ibn Maʿdān’s tent was the very first to be pitched at Dābiq.” (4)

Abū Usāmah said: “Whenever we sat with Sufyān al-Thawrī, all we would hear from him was: ‘Death, death.’” (5)

He then narrated to us—through Thawr—from Khalid ibn Maʿdān, who said: “If death were a field of knowledge for which people competed, no one would outstrip me in pursuing it, except a man who surpassed me by sheer strength.” He continued: “So what…"