Hishām ibn ʿUrwah ( ar, هشام بن عروة, ) was a prominent
narrator of hadith.
He was born in Medina in the year 61 A.H. (680 C.E.).
[Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib, xi, 51: see also Al-Dhahabi, Mīzān al-I'tidāl.] His father was
Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, the son of
Zubayr ibn al-Awwam
Az Zubayr ( ar, الزبير) is a city in and the capital of Al-Zubair District, part of the Basra Governorate of Iraq. The city is just south of Basra. The name can also refer to the old Emirate of Zubair.
The name is also sometimes written ...
and
Asma bint Abu Bakr, and his mother was an unnamed concubine.
[Muhammad ibn Sa'd. ''The Men of Madina Volume II.'' Translated by Aisha Bewley. London: Ta-Ha (2000).]
He married
Fatima bint Mundhir, and their children were al-Zubayr, Urwah and Muhammad.
As a narrator, Hisham is described as "reliable and firm, with a lot of ''hadith'', and he was an authority." He narrated from his father, Urwah; from his wife, Fatima; and from Wahb ibn Kaysan.
Among his pupils was
Malik ibn Anas
Malik ibn Anas ( ar, مَالِك بن أَنَس, 711–795 CE / 93–179 AH), whose full name is Mālik bin Anas bin Mālik bin Abī ʿĀmir bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith bin Ghaymān bin Khuthayn bin ʿAmr bin Al-Ḥārith al-Aṣbaḥī ...
.
[ The young Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi also listened to him;] however, al-Waqidi would have been only 16 years old when Hisham died.
Hisham died in Baghdad in 146 A.H. (763 C.E.)
See also
* Fatima bint Mundhir
References
8th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Abu Bakr family
Tabi‘un hadith narrators
667 births
772 deaths
8th-century Arabs
Banu Asad (Quraysh)
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