- Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Khalid ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Asad al-Bajali—son of the amir of Iraq, a Bajali, Qasri, Damascene.
He transmitted from: Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, Muhammad ibn Suqah, ʿAmmar al-Duhni, Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid, Abu Hayyan al-Taymi, Ibn ʿAwn, Abu Hamzah al-Thumali, Abu Rawq, Sulayman ibn ʿAli al-ʿAbbasi, Umayy al-Sayrafi, and others.
He was engaged in hadith and possessed some knowledge, yet he was not meticulous and would single-handedly report objectionable material.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Walid ibn Muslim—who belongs to his own generation—Hisham ibn ʿAmmar, Duhaim, Sulayman ibn Bint Shurahbil, Ahmad ibn Janab al-Massisi, Hisham ibn Khalid, Yusuf ibn Saʿid ibn Muslim, Ahmad ibn Bakruwayh al-Balisi, and others.
A high-level chain from him has reached me in the “Fascicle of Ibn Abi Thabit.”
Abu Jaʿfar al-ʿUqayli said: “He is not corroborated in his hadith” (1).
Abu Hatim said: “He is not strong” (2).
Ibn ʿAdi also mentioned him, cited a collection of his narrations, and said: “His hadith are not…"