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Hashim is a common male Arabic given name, which signifies "breaker of bread".
The title Hashim was given to 'Amr al-ʻUlā ibn 'Abd Manaf, as he was generous in providing bread to poor people and travelers going to Mecca. This Hashim was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the progenitor of the Banu Hashim clan of the distinguished Quraish tribe in Mecca.
Hashim may also refer to:
- Hashim Amir Ali
- Hashim (poet)
- Hashim Amla
- Hashim Thaçi
- Hashim Khan
- Hashim Qureshi
- Mir Hashim Ali Khan
- Hashim al-Atassi
People using it in their patronymic include:
- Asad ibn Hashim
Musicians:
- Hashim (Jerry Calliste, Jr.)
Others:
- Banu Hashim
Hashim Shah (b. 1735 d. 1843) was a Punjabi writer and Sufi poet, best known for his story Sassi Punnun (or Sassi Panhu). His family migrated from Hold Madina to Punjab, India, where they began living at Jagdev Kalan, the biggest village in Ajnala tehsil, Amritsar district. Hashim Shah was born in Madina in 1735 and lived in that village his entire life. He wrote three stories "Kissa Kaw" named Sassi Punnu, Sohni Mahiwal, and Shiri Farhad.
Hashim, besides following the family tradition of hikmat (physician), copunselling and Piri-Muridi, also worked as a carpenter for sustenance. He left the profession of carpentry when Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his courtiers extended their patronage to Hashim. Thereafter, he devoted his entire life to spiritual attainments and composing Sufistic (mystic) poetry.
Sufism ran in Hashim's family. He, his father and grandfather practised piri-muridi. He took Sufism as an established belief. His Punjabi poetry reverberates with mysticism of high order and can be allegorically interpreted for Love Divine.
Hashim died in 1843 and is buried in Tharpal village in Narowal district where every year Urs was held on or about 21st of Jeth (end May - early June).
In his poetic compositions his prosody is Punjabi though his vocabulary abounds in Hindi, Persian and Arabic words He has written the following books:
- Qissa Shirin Farhad
- Qissa Sohni Mahiwal
- Qissa Sassi Punnun
- Gyan Prakash
- Dohre