the Dār al-Nadwah for deliberation before he was forty years old—except Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, for he was admitted to its council when he was only fifteen.

He was also one of the few men who buried ʿUthmān at night.⦗1⦘

Yahyā ibn Bukayr narrated: ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Sulaymān told us, “I heard Muṣʿab ibn Thābit say, ‘It reached me—by Allah—that Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām attended the Day of ʿArafah with one hundred slaves, one hundred sacrificial camels, one hundred head of cattle, and one hundred sheep, and he declared, ‘All of this is for Allah.’”⦗2⦘

Abū Ḥāzim reported: “We never learned of anyone in Madinah who shouldered greater expenditures in the path of Allah than Ḥakīm.”

It was also said that Ḥakīm sold the Dār al-Nadwah to Muʿāwiyah for one hundred thousand.

Ibn al-Zubayr said to him, “You have sold Quraysh’s badge of honour.”

He replied, “My nephew, every honour has vanished except God-consciousness. With that price I bought a house in Paradise; bear witness that I have dedicated it to Allah.”⦗3⦘

Al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated: Shuʿbah said, “When al-Zubayr died, Ḥakīm met ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and asked, ‘How much debt did my brother leave?’ He answered, ‘One million.’ Ḥakīm said, ‘I shall cover five hundred thousand of it.’”⦗4⦘

Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from his father, reported: Ibn al-Zubayr said, “My father was killed and left a large debt, so I went to Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām to seek his counsel and found him selling a camel … ,” and the narration continues.⦗5⦘