Hishām ibn ʿUrwah (, ) 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
Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam ibn Khuwaylid al-Asadi (; ) was an Arab Muslim commander in the service of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the caliphs Abu Bakr () and Umar () who played a leading role in the Ridda Wars, Ridda wars against rebel tribes in ...
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 (; –795) also known as Imam Malik was an Arab Islamic scholar and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Maliki school, one of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence in Sunni Islam.Schacht, J., "Mālik b. Anas", in: ''E ...
.
[ The young Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi also listened to him;]
See also
* Fatima bint Mundhir
References
8th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Family of Abu Bakr
Tabi‘un hadith narrators
667 births
772 deaths
8th-century Arab people
Banu Asad (Quraysh)
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