He heard ḥadith from his father and from Zayd ibn Thābit.

Among those who transmitted from him are ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, al-Zuhrī, Abū al-Zinād, and a group of others.

Only a small number of his narrations have come down to us, and he once presented himself before ʿAbd al-Malik.

Ibn Abī al-Zinād reported—through his father—from Abān: “I heard ʿUthmān say: ‘Whoever, at the start of his day and night, says: In the name of Allah, with whose name nothing on earth or in heaven can cause harm, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, nothing will harm him that day or that night.’ ”

Later, when Abān was afflicted by paralysis, he remarked, “By Allah, I forgot to recite this supplication tonight; the decree of Allah has therefore come to pass with me.”

This is an authentic hadith.

It was also narrated from Abān by Mundhir ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ḥizāmī and Muḥammad ibn Kaʿb al-Quraẓī, and al-Tirmidhī recorded it (1).

Ibn Saʿd said (2): “He is trustworthy; he has narrations from his father.”

He suffered from deafness and extensive leukoderma, and in the closing years of his life he was struck by paralysis.

Khalīfah said (3): “He was the brother of ʿAmr, and their mother was Umm ʿAmr bint Jundub.”

Al-Wāqidī said (4): “Abān governed Medina for seven years.”