A total of 179 hadiths are transmitted on his authority. Al-Bukhari and Muslim both include two of them. Al-Bukhari alone relates three, while Muslim alone records eight.

Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated from Mughīth ibn Sumay that Abu al-Dardāʾ was ʿUwaymir ibn ʿĀmir of the clan of al-Ḥārith ibn al-Khazraj. Ibn Isḥāq once said that he was ʿUwaymir ibn Thaʿlabah.

He died three years before ʿUthmān ⦗1⦘.

Al-Bukhari said, “I asked one of Abu al-Dardāʾ’s descendants, and he told me: ‘His name is ʿĀmir ibn Mālik, and his sobriquet is ʿUwaymir.’” ⦗2⦘
Abu Mushir said: “He is ʿUwaymir ibn Thaʿlabah.”
Aḥmad, Ibn Abī Shaybah, and several others said: “ʿUwaymir ibn ʿĀmir.” ⦗3⦘

The last person who claimed to have seen Abu al-Dardāʾ was a shaykh who lived on into the reign of Hārūn al-Rashīd. Abu Ibrāhīm al-Turjumānī said: “Ishāq Abū al-Ḥārith narrated to us, saying, ‘I saw Abu al-Dardāʾ: he had an aquiline nose, bright eyes, and he used to dye (his beard) yellow.’” ⦗4⦘

Al-Aʿmash transmitted from Khaythamah that Abu al-Dardāʾ said: “I was a merchant before the prophetic mission; when Islam came I tried to combine trade and worship, but the two would not sit well together,