فَلَمَّا اسْتَقَرَّ بِنَا الْمَجْلِسُ وَ كَانَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَبْلَ الْحَجِّ يَسْتَقِرُّ أَيَّاماً فِي جَبَلٍ فِي طَرَفِ الْحَرَمِ فِي فَازَةٍ لَهُ مَضْرُوبَةٍ قَالَ فَأَخْرَجَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) رَأْسَهُ مِنْ فَازَتِهِ فَإِذَا هُوَ بِبَعِيرٍ يَخُبُّ فَقَالَ هِشَامٌ وَ رَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ So when the gatherers sat down, and it was so that Abu Abdullah -asws , before the Hajj, used to hold gatherings for days in a mountain by the side of the Sanctuary inside a tent struck for him -asws .
So Abu Abdullah -asws brought out his -asws head from his -asws tent, and there was a camel growling. So he -asws said, ‘Hisham! By the Lord -azwj of the Kabah!’.
قَالَ فَظَنَنَّا أَنَّ هِشَاماً رَجُلٌ مِنْ وُلْدِ عَقِيلٍ كَانَ شَدِيدَ الْمَحَبَّةِ لَهُ قَالَ فَوَرَدَ هِشَامُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ وَ هُوَ أَوَّلُ مَا اخْتَطَّتْ لِحْيَتُهُ وَ لَيْسَ فِينَا إِلَّا مَنْ هُوَ أَكْبَرُ سِنّاً مِنْهُ قَالَ فَوَسَّعَ لَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) وَ قَالَ نَاصِرُنَا بِقَلْبِهِ وَ لِسَانِهِ وَ يَدِهِ He (the narrator) said, ‘So we thought that Hisham was a man from the children of Aqeel for whom he -asws had intense love for.
Hisham Bin Al-Hakam arrived and he was the first who had sprouted his beard, and there wasn’t among us anyone except he was older in age than him. So Abu Abdullah -asws made space for him as said, ‘He helps us by his heart, and his tongue, and his hands’.
Speak to the man’. So he spoke to him and was victorious over him. Then he -asws said: ‘O Taaqy (Al-Ahowl)! Speak to him’. So he spoke to him and Al Ahowl was victorious over him. Then he -asws said: ‘O Hisham Bin Salim! Speak to him’. So they were both equal. Then Abu Abdullah -asws said to Qays Al-Masir: ‘Speak to him!’.
So he spoke to him, and Abu Abdullah -asws laughed due to both their speeches from what had hit the Syrian, and he -asws said to the Syrian: ‘Speak to this boy’, meaning Hisham Bin Al-Hakam. So he said, ‘Yes’.