Then Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāliḥ was admitted. He was asked, “What do you say about Abū al-Yamān?”
He replied, “One of our shaykhs, the tutor of our children.”
He asked, “And ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh?”
He answered, “A righteous man, but unqualified.”
He asked, “And Khālid ibn Khalī?”
He said, “He took his knowledge from me and wrote down jurisprudence.”
So he too was led out.

Next ʿAlī ibn ʿAyyāsh was brought in. After some conversation he was asked, “What do you say about Abū al-Yamān?”
He replied, “A righteous shaykh, a reciter of the Quran.”
He asked, “And Yaḥyā?”
He said, “One of the jurists.”
He asked, “And Khālid ibn Khalī?”
He said, “A man of learning.”
He then began to weep.

Khālid was then ushered in. He was asked, “What do you say about Abū al-Yamān?”
He said, “Our shaykh and our scholar; the one with whom we read the Quran.”
He asked, “And Yaḥyā?”
He replied, “We acquired knowledge and jurisprudence from him.”
He asked, “And Ibn ʿAyyāsh?”
He said, “A man from the abdal; when calamity befalls us we consult him, he prays to Allah, and the hardship is lifted. When drought strikes, we seek his help, he supplicates Allah — exalted is He — and He sends us rain.”

At this, Yaḥyā ibn Aktham turned toward the thin curtain that separated him from al-Maʾmūn, raised it, and al-Maʾmūn said, “This man is fit for the judiciary; appoint him.”
So he ordered the robes of honor to be brought, they were draped upon Khālid, and he was invested with the judgeship. (1)

I (the author) say: I have found no definitive report of his death; it seems he died in the early 220s AH.

His son:

225 – Muḥammad ibn Khālid ibn Khalī al-Ḥimṣī (S)
The imam, scholar, and authority, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥimṣī.