He transmitted only a single ḥadīth, and it is judged unsound (1).
He also passed on early reports from Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, al-Aʿmash, Abān, and the two Ḥammāds.
Those who narrated from him include Ibn Mahdī, al-Qaṭṭān, Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Shādhakūnī, Zuhayr ibn ʿAbbād, Ṣāliḥ ibn Mihrān, and others.
Ibn al-Mubārak used to visit him regularly and held him in great affection. He was among the paternal forefathers of the ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym.
Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān said, “I have never seen anyone better than him.” When Sufyān al-Thawrī was mentioned to him, he replied, “This is one thing and that is another.”
He scarcely lay down to sleep, kept guard on the frontier, visited the grave of Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, and every year seventy dinars would reach him from Isfahān; he would make the pilgrimage with them and then return to the frontier zone.
41 – Khālid ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿUbayd ibn Sulaymān al-Hujaymī* (ʿ)
the son of ʿUbayd ibn Sufyān.
And it is also said: Khālid ibn—