He is counted among those who recited the Qur’an directly before the Prophet ﷺ, and we have never come across a single report that he recited before anyone else. He is also numbered among those who had gathered the entire Qur’an during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. In Damascus he assumed the foremost seat of Qur’an instruction during the caliphate of ʿUthmān—and even prior to that.

Narrators who transmitted from him include: Anas ibn Mālik, Fadālah ibn ʿUbayd, Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Umāmah, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, and other eminent Companions; together with Jubayr ibn Nufayr, Zayd ibn Wahb, Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī, ʿAlqamah ibn Qays, Qabīṣah ibn Dhuʾayb; his wife, the scholar Umm al-Dardāʾ; his son, Bilāl ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ; Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, Maʿdān ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĀmir al-Yaḥṣubī ⦗1⦘.

It has also been said that Ibn ʿĀmir recited the Qur’an to him and caught up with him; if that report is sound, then he probably recited only part of the Qur’an to him while still a boy.

Among those who read the Qur’an to him were ʿAṭiyyah ibn Qays and Umm al-Dardāʾ.

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī states: “Those who presented their recitation to him were Khulayḍ ibn Saʿd, Rāshid ibn Saʿd, Khālid ibn Maʿdān, and Ibn ʿĀmir.” Such are al-Dānī’s words.

He also served as judge in Damascus during the rule of ʿUthmān, making him the earliest of its judges whose name has reached us. His house was at Bāb al-Barīd, and in the era of Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn it came to be known as the House of the Ghazzī ⦗2⦘.