Narrator

هشام بن الحكم

Hisham ibn al-Hakam

Hisham ibn al-Hakam kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa, Wasit, Baghdad (Qasr Wadih). Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Ṣādiq (ʿa), al-Kāẓim (ʿa)

From Kufa, Wasit, Baghdad (Qasr Wadih) Written about in 5 books, 6 entries

In this collection

152 narrations 55% of them in Al-Kāfi 83 men stand next to him in a chain →

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Rijāl al-Najāshī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 430
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 312
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 2556 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
Companion of al-Sadiq and al-Kadhim (عليهما السلام) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
City or tribe
Kufa, Wasit, Baghdad (Qasr Wadih) — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Kufa; Wasit; Baghdad — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
Kufa; Banu Kinda (Mawla) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Died
199 AH — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • هشام بن الحكم
  • هشام بن الحكم الكندي
  • أبا الحكم
  • أبا محمد
  • أبو الحكم
  • أبو محمد
all 15 names →

6 entries across 5 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 6 entries and 16 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.