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 "id": "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
 "label": {
  "en": "al-Walid ibn al-Mughira",
  "ar": "الوليد بن المغيرة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The grand old man of Banu Makhzum — arbiter of Quraysh's elders, father of Khalid, and the man whose poetic verdicts shaped how Mecca first named the Prophet's recitation.",
  "ar": "شيخ بني مخزوم الكبير — حكم شيوخ قريش، وأبو خالد، والرجل الذي شكّلت أحكامه البلاغية ما سمّت به مكة أولًا تلاوة النبي."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "anti-muslim-hatred",
  "literature"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 550.0009582674525,
  "latest": 621.0003627726467
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0550~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0620~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died shortly after the boycott period, before Badr.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0550~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0620~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died shortly after the boycott period, before Badr.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Senior voice of the Makhzum opposition; the sira preserves his council-scene judging the revelation 'a magic that comes down from the magic of old'.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "persecutor",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0620~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Of the elite that pressed the boycott of Banu Hashim.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "An elder of Mecca's traditional order.",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1953-mecca"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/watt-1953-mecca"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الوليد بن المغيرة شيخ بني مخزوم الكبير — حكم مجالس قريش، وأبو خالد بن الوليد، والناقد الشاعر الذي أعطت أحكامه مكة أول مفرداتها في تسمية تلاوة النبي."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "أشهر مجلس في السيرة مجلسه: الشيوخ يسألونه بأي شيء يسمّون النبي — كاهنًا؟ مجنونًا؟ شاعرًا؟ — والوليد يزن كل كلمة ويردّها، ويستقر على «ساحر يفرّق بين المرء وعشيرته» {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. وصار الحكم شعار الحملة.\n\nوكان من النخبة التي ضغطت [[event/boycott-of-banu-hashim|مقاطعة بني هاشم]]، ومات نحو سنة 620م قبل بدر {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وجيل بنيه أخذ القصة أبعد — [[person/khalid-ibn-al-walid|خالد]] يقاتل في جانبيها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "الوليد معروضة المعرض في المعارضة بالبلاغة: لحظة حاولت مكة تصنيف الوحي — وفي رواية المصادر نفسها، أعزّته بما يكفي لتجادل في الكلمة الصحيحة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "سأل شيوخ مكة أحكم رجليهم بأي اسم يسمّون كلام النبي. أجاب بما قصده إهانةً — وهو يخبرنا أنهم عرفوا قوة الكلام."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Al-Walid ibn al-Mughira was the grand elder of Banu Makhzum — arbiter of Quraysh's councils, father of Khalid ibn al-Walid, and the poet-critic whose verdicts gave Mecca its first vocabulary for the Prophet's recitation."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "The sira's most famous council-scene is his: the elders asking him what to call the Prophet — soothsayer? madman? poet? — and al-Walid weighing each word and rejecting it, settling on \"a sorcerer who splits a man from his family\" {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. The verdict became the campaign line.\n\nHe was of the elite that pressed the [[event/boycott-of-banu-hashim|boycott of Banu Hashim]], and died about 620 CE, before Badr {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. His sons' generation would take the story further — [[person/khalid-ibn-al-walid|Khalid]] fighting on both sides of it."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Al-Walid is the museum's exhibit of opposition by rhetoric: the moment Mecca tried to taxonomize the revelation — and, in the sources' own telling, respected it enough to argue about the right word."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "The elders of Mecca asked their wisest man what to call the Prophet's words. His answer was meant as an insult — and it tells us they knew the words were powerful."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
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  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/mutim-ibn-adi",
  "person/khadija",
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  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/sumayya-bint-khayyat",
  "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
  "person/waraqa-ibn-nawfal",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib"
 ],
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   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-makhzum",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
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  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
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  {
   "to": "event/boycott-of-banu-hashim",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
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  {
   "to": "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true
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  {
   "to": "event/rebuilding-of-the-kaaba",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "ابتدأ بهدمها",
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/walid-council",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "صاحب الرأي «ساحر يفرق بين المرء وأهله»",
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   "to": "passage/quran-74-11",
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  "place/mecca",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/muhammad",
  "group/quraysh",
  "person/abu-jahl",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "group/banu-hashim",
  "group/early-muslims"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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 }
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