I say: The biographers disagreed about the year of his death.
Hanbal said: He died in 213 AH (1).
Al-Muṭayyin said: In 214 AH (2).
I add: He was in his seventies, or perhaps his eighties, and his ḥadith is included in the Six Canonical Collections.
55 – Khālid ibn Makhlad Abū al-Haytham al-Bajali * (B, M, T, S, Q)
A leading imam, hadith scholar, ḥāfiẓ, prolific transmitter, and narrator of singular reports: Abū al-Haytham al-Bajali, al-Kūfi, known as al-Qaṭwānī.
Qaṭwān is a district in Kūfa.
The bulk of his narrations were from the scholars of Medina.
He related ḥadith from: Mālik; Abū al-Ghuṣn Thābit ibn Qays; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl; Nāfiʿ ibn Abī Nuʿaym; ʿAlī ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy; Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAwf; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Makhramī; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Fiṭrī (3); and several others.
Those who narrated from him include: al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, Abū Umayyah al-Ṭarsūsī, Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Karāmah, Muḥammad ibn