Muḥammad ibn Saʿd relates—quoting al-Wāqidī—who said: “Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Khālid told me, on the authority of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān:
After returning from Abyssinia, Khālid ibn Saʿīd settled in Madīnah. He used to act as scribe for the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him; it was he who drafted the letter to the people of Ṭāʾif for the Thaqīf delegation and who worked for a reconciliation between them and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

Among that company—may Allah be pleased with him—is Khālid ibn al-Walīd [ibn al-Mughīrah] ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Makhzūm, Abū Sulaymān al-Makhzūmī. He was the commander of the triumphant Muslim armies and the victorious Muhammadan forces, present at celebrated engagements and praiseworthy days, a man of sound judgment and commendable conduct—Abū Sulaymān Khālid ibn al-Walīd, may Allah be pleased with him. It is said that he never took part in a force that was broken, whether in the pre-Islamic era or after the advent of Islam.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: “Within Quraysh the honor of pitching the war pavilion and holding the reins of the horses belonged to him.” He, together with ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ and ʿUthmān [ibn Ṭalḥah] ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, embraced Islam after the Treaty of Ḥudaybiyyah—some say at Khaybar—and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, persistently dispatched him as a commander whenever he sent out a detachment. During the caliphate of al-Ṣiddīq he was placed at the head of all the armies. When ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb assumed leadership he relieved him and appointed Abū ʿUbaydah, the Trustworthy One of the ummah, stipulating that Abū Sulaymān’s counsel be followed. Khālid died during ʿUmar’s rule, in the year 21 AH—some say 22 AH, but the first is more accurate—at a village one mile from Ḥimṣ.

Al-Wāqidī said: “I asked about that village and was told it had disappeared.” Duḥaym maintained that he died in Madīnah, yet the first report is sounder. He transmitted numerous ḥadīths, too many to enumerate here.

ʿAtīq ibn Yaʿqūb reported: “ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Bakr related to me, from his father, from his grandfather, from ʿAmr ibn Ḥazm, that these are estates which the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, allotted:
‘In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. From Muḥammad, the Messenger of Allah, to the believers: the thorn-trees of Wajj are not to be lopped and its game is not to be hunted. Whoever is found doing any of that shall be flogged and his garments stripped from him, and if’