- Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām ibn Khuwaylid ibn Asad al-Asadī (may Allah be pleased with him)—Abū Khālid al-Qurashī al-Asadī.
He embraced Islam on the day of the Conquest, and his faith proved sound. He took part in the expeditions of Hunayn and al-Ṭāʾif. A leading figure among Quraysh, he was counted among its wise men and nobles. Khadījah was his paternal aunt, and al-Zubayr was his cousin (1).
Those who transmitted reports from him include his two sons—Hishām, the Companion, and Ḥizām—together with ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Nawfal, Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, ʿUrwah, Mūsā ibn Ṭalḥah, Yūsuf ibn Māhak, and others, as well as ʿIrāk ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, and ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ. I am inclined to think that the narrations of these latter are mursal.
He visited Damascus as a merchant. It is said that when he strengthened an oath he would say, “No, by the One who saved me from being killed on the Day of Badr.” (2)
Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mundhir stated that he lived to the age of one hundred and twenty years, having been born thirteen years before the Year of the Elephant.