Hishām ibn ʿUrwah (Arabic: هشام بن عروة, c. 680–763) was a prominent narrator of hadith. He was born in Medina in the year 61 A.H. (680 C.E.). His father was Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, the son of Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and Asma bint Abu Bakr, and his mother was an unnamed concubine.He married Fatima bint Mundhir, and their children were al-Zubayr, Urwah and Muhammad.: 294 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.: 294  Among his pupils was Malik ibn Anas. The young Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi also listened to him;: 294  however, al-Waqidi would have been only 16 years old when Hisham died.: 388 Hisham died in Baghdad: 294  in 146 A.H. (763 C.E.) Source: Wikipedia (en)