He answered, “Then deduct ninety thousand.” Khalid was astonished. The Bedouin added, “Commander, I asked in keeping with your station and reduced it in keeping with mine.” Khalid replied, “You will never outdo me,” and ordered that he be given one hundred thousand.

Another Bedouin came before him and said, “I have composed some verses in your praise, though I deem them too slight for you.” Khalid said, “Recite.” The man began:
“You pursued me with your bounty until you revived me,
and you kept on giving till I thought you were jesting.
You are generosity—its son, its brother, its sworn ally:
for bounty has no path that can lead it away from you.”

Khalid said, “State your need.” He replied, “I am burdened with fifty thousand dinars.” Khalid said, “I have ordered that amount for you, and I have doubled it for you (1).” He then gave him one hundred thousand.

Abu al-Tayyib Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yaḥyā al-Washshāʾ (2) reported: A Bedouin visited Khalid al-Qasri and recited:
“You have inscribed ‘Yes’ upon your gate, summoning
the people to you with unveiled face;
And you have said to ‘No,’ ‘Stand at some door other than mine,
for you shall never be seen at my threshold.’”
Khalid rewarded him with fifty thousand for every line.

Ibn Maʿīn said of him: “He was a wicked man who used to revile ʿAli ibn Abi Ṭālib (may Allah be pleased with him).”

Al-Aṣmaʿi related from his father that Khalid once dug a well in Mecca and claimed it excelled Zamzam. Another report has him preferring the caliph to the Messenger—an act of disbelief unless he meant something other than the apparent sense; Allah knows best. What appears is that this is not soundly attributed to him, for he strove to extinguish misguidance and innovation, as we have shown in his execution of al-Jaʿd ibn Dirham and others among the heretics.

The author of al-ʿIqd ascribed to him matters that are unsound, for that author was steeped in vile Shiʿite bias and excessive veneration of the Prophet’s Household—bias that many readers might not detect in his wording. Our teacher al-Dhahabi was deceived by him and praised his memory and other qualities.

Ibn Jarir, Ibn ʿAsakir, and others (3) relate that al-Walid ibn Yazid had decided to perform the pilgrimage during his reign and intended to drink wine on the roof of the Kaʿbah. When a group of commanders learned of this, they conspired to kill him and place someone else in his stead.