and Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah, Ṣadaqah ibn Khālid, Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Abī Mālik, along with a number of others.
He was originally from Khurasan.
Those who narrated from him include: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, ʿAbbās al-Dūrī, al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ, Abū Zurʿah, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Marwazī, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Abū Bakr al-Ṣagānī, Mūsā ibn Isḥāq, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣūfī, and others.
His report is found in the Jāmiʿ (1) under the Expedition of the Conquest.
Aḥmad al-Ṣūfī said, “Al-Haytham ibn Khārijah narrated to us; he used to be called ‘the younger Shuʿbah.’”
Hishām ibn ʿAmmār said, “We used to call him ‘the younger Shuʿbah.’” (2)
Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn said, “He is reliable.” (3)
Al-Nasāʾī said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.” (4)
(1) 8/16 – Chapter: The Prophet’s ﷺ entry from the upper side of Mecca. — Al-Haytham b. Kharija narrated to us; Hafs b. Maysara narrated from Hisham b. Urwa, from his father, that ‛Aisha told him the Prophet ﷺ entered, in the Year of the Conquest, through Kada, which lies at the upper end of Mecca.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar comments on Al-Haytham b. Kharija: “He was among the reliable narrators.” ‛Abd Allah b. Ahmad said: “Whenever my father (Ahmad b. Hanbal) approved of someone and deemed him trustworthy, he would transmit from him while he was still alive; and he transmitted to us from Al-Haytham b. Kharija while he was alive. Al-Bukhari cites no connected report from him except in this single place.”
(2) Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 14, p. 58; Al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1454.
(3) Tarikh Baghdad, 14/58; Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1454.
(4) Tarikh Baghdad, 14/59; Tahdhib al-Kamal, folio 1454.