He transmitted hadith from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿAmir, and from Ibn al-Zubayr.

In Damascus he owned a house beside the Great Mosque known as the Sumaysatiyyah. (1)

Those who narrated from him include his son ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, al-Zuhri, Kathir ibn Murrah, ʿUlayy ibn Rabah, Ibn Abi Mulaykah, and Bahir ibn Dakhir. (2)

Ibn Saʿd and al-Nasaʾi declared him trustworthy. One of his reports appears in the Sunan of Abu Dawud.

Suwayd ibn Qays related: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Marwan sent me with one thousand dinars to Ibn ʿUmar, and when I delivered them he distributed the entire amount. (3)

Ibn Abi Mulaykah said: I was present at the deathbed of ʿAbd al-ʿAziz when he kept repeating, “Would that I had never existed! Would that I were like this flowing water.”

It is also said that he declared, “Bring my shroud—fie upon you! How short is what seemed long, how scant is what seemed abundant.” (4)

Hammad ibn Musa reported: When ʿAbd al-ʿAziz was in his final moments, a messenger came to congratulate him on the year’s revenues. He asked, “What have you brought?” The man answered, “Three hundred mudiyy of gold.” He replied, “What concern have I with that? I would have preferred it to be hardened dung scattered in the wilds of Najd.” (5)

I (the compiler) say: Such is the utterance of every sovereign weighed down with riches—why, then, do they not hurry to give them away?