He heard from Muḥammad ibn Fuṭays, Sulaymān ibn Quraysh, Saʿīd ibn ʿUthmān al-Aʿnāqī, Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and others of their rank.
His life was not long.
He composed the book Rijāl al-Andalus (The Men of al-Andalus). He was an authoritative, meticulous scholar, regarded as superior to the ḥuffāẓ of Córdoba, his intellect burning with brilliance.
On one occasion he memorised twenty-one hadiths in a single sitting.
It is related that the Andalusian ruler al-Mustansir said: “If the people of the East boast of Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, then we boast of Khālid ibn Saʿd.”
It was also said that this Khālid had a sharp, abusive tongue, assailing people’s honour—may Allah pardon him.
He died in 352 AH.
A group informed me, through others authorised by Abū al-Fath ibn al-Baṭṭī, who said: Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥumaydī informed us; Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, in his book, informed us; Qāsim ibn Muḥammad informed us; Khālid ibn Saʿd narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; Ibn Sanjar narrated to us; Sharīk narrated to us; he then mentioned a hadith from al-Kalbī, from Ḥumaydah bint al-Shamardal (1), from al-Ḥārith ibn Qays (2), who said: