he was released, and he travelled on to Syria in 122 AH.

Ibn Khallikān transmits that Yūsuf tightened the rack on him until he shattered both his feet and calves, then pressed it against his spine; when the backbone gave way he died, yet throughout he neither groaned nor spoke. This, however, is unsound, for he did reach Syria and remained there until the profligate al-Walīd put him to death.

Ibn Jarīr says: “Khalid ibn ʿAbd Allāh endured torture for a single day, after which the muḍarrasa—a spiked board—was laid upon his chest and he was killed that very night, in Muḥarram of 126 AH, according to Haytham ibn ʿAdī. ʿĀmir ibn Sahlah al-Ashʿarī then came and hamstrung his horse at Khalid’s grave, whereupon Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar had him flogged seven hundred lashes.”

About him Abū al-Ashʿath al-ʿAbsī said:
“Indeed, the best of men, in life and in death,
 Is the captive of Thaqīf, chained in their fetters.
By my life, you have crowded the prison with Khālid,
 And trod him down with the tread of the heavy-footed.
Though they have jailed al-Qaṣrī, his name is not confined,
 Nor his famed generosity among the tribes.
He would rise to every daunting affair,
 And lavish gifts in floods, abundant in charity.”

Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd and others relate:
Al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad told us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said:
“I witnessed Khalid al-Qaṣrī on an Eid al-Aḍḥā proclaiming, ‘Offer your sacrifices—may Allah accept them from you—for I am sacrificing Jaʿd ibn Dirham. He alleges that Allah did not take Abraham as a close friend and did not speak to Moses directly. Exalted is Allah, far above what Jaʿd says!’
He then stepped down and slaughtered him (1).”

I say: This deed counts among his merits—this, along with his execution of Mughīrah the impostor.