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came and stood beside me. He looked at me for a long time, but I did not talk with him. His
standing beside me increased me nothing except fear and perplexity. When he came to know of
that, he stroke his mule and went away until he passed through a street in Kufa. I was sure that
Allah, the Great and Almighty, gave him such reverence, that the Great Lord gave him a great
position.’” ‘Umar said: “As a result Hisham devoted himself to Abu ‘Abd Allah; he left his doctrine
and adopted the true religion, and surpassed all the companions of Abu ‘Abd Allah.”[1]
This story indicates, as Shaykh ‘Abd Allah Ni‘ma says, that Hisham had a strong, argumentative
element. For the narrator of the story said that he was a wicked Jahami, he had fear that Imam al‐
Sadiq would turn away from him, then he went too far in describing him as bad and wicked. By
that he meant that Hisham had intense opposition and strong argument. Yet he had another
element which is that he was very yearning for acquiring knowledge; he continued his seeking it
and spared no effort to attain it, to the extent that he met with Imam Abu ‘Abd Allah in one place.
As for that he was perplexed for some days, that he did not recover from his perplexity, just as
‘Umar b. Yazid said, that he returned to communicate with Imam al‐Sadiq, that he left his doctrine
and followed him, is evidence for his
[1] Al‐Keshi, Rijal, p. 166.
sincere desire and his love for knowledge and seeking it wherever it was.[1] Any way, Hisham
strongly joined the Imam, took knowledge and sciences from him, to the extent that he was on
top of the great religious scholar, while he had been among the most famous companions of al‐
Jaham b. Saffwan.[2]
C. His Graduation
Hisham devoted himself to Imam al‐Sadiq and adhered to communicating with him, to the extent
that he became the most prominent man in his school. When Imam al‐Sadiq moved to the Abode
of Everlastingness, he dedicated himself to his son Imam Musa, peace be on him. He took
knowledge and virtue from him. So he took knowledge from its correct source and attained the
honor of studentship from the Imams of Ahl al‐Bayt, peace be on them.
D. Those who narrated from him
Some great narrators reported from him the traditions he had heard from Ahl al‐Bayt, peace be
on them. They are a great group; there narrations from him are available in the books of
jurisprudence and hadiths. We will mention to readers some of them:
1. Muhammed b. Abi ‘Umayr (died 217 A. H.).
2. Saffwan b. Yehya al‐Bajali al‐Kufi.
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