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.)

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8th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Abu Bakr family Tabi‘un hadith narrators 667 births 772 deaths 8th-century Arabs Banu Asad (Quraysh) {{Islam-bio-stub

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