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

150 narrations 56% of them in Al-Kāfi 82 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Narrates from 1

named by a book

  • Abu al-Hasan (al-Kadhim) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 4

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

  • Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · Rijāl al-Najāshī · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • أبو الحسن موسى عليه السلام Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • Mūsā al-Kāẓim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن الرضا عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن موسى بن جعفر عليهما السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

In the same isnād

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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.