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.
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. The young Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi also listened to him; however, al-Waqidi would have been only 16 years old when Hisham died.
Hisham died in Baghdad in 146 A.H. (763 C.E.)
Malik ibn Anas objected on those narratives of Hisham Ibn Urwa which were reported through people in Iraq: “I have been told that Malik objected on those narratives of Hisham which were reported through people of Iraq” according to (Tahzi’b u’l-tahzi’b, Ibn Hajar Al-`asqala’ni, Dar Ihya al-turath al-Islami, Vol.11, p. 50).
Hisham has been accused of becoming weak during his time in Iraq, however, scholars like Imam-Dhababi and Al-Alaii defend him against these accusations