al-Walid's council on how to brand the Prophet
مجلس الوليد بن المغيرة
c. 613 CE
With the pilgrimage season approaching, Quraysh's leaders sat with al-Walid ibn al-Mughira to agree one word to say to the Arabs about Muhammad; he rejected 'soothsayer', 'madman', 'poet' and even 'sorcerer' as literal descriptions, then advised them to call his word sorcery that separates a man from his family — and they sat on the pilgrims' roads warning people of him.
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Connections
- Occurred at
- Mecca
- Had participant
- al-Walid ibn al-MughiraAbu LahabQuraysh
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
People and things also explored
The boycott of the Banu HashimThe proclamation on al-SafaQurayshMeccaAbu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-MuttalibThe Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)The call to the nearest kinThe Expedition of Banu al-Mustaliq (al-Muraysi')
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Walid's council on how to brand the Prophet”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/walid-council/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.