Jubayr ibn Mut'im

Jubayr ibn Mut'im ibn Adi ibn Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf al-Qurashi al-Nawfali; he was among Quraysh's grandees and genealogists ¹.

He came to the Prophet over the ransom of the captives of Badr and heard him recite Surat al-Tur — he said: "that was the first faith that entered my heart". Bukhari related it in the Sahih, and the Prophet told him: "were your father alive and spoke to me for them, I would have given them to him" ¹.

He became Muslim between Hudaybiyya and the conquest — or it is said: at the conquest. Al-Baghawi said he became Muslim before Mecca's conquest ¹.

Ibn Ishaq mentions that when Umar was given al-Nu'man's lineage he called for Jubayr ibn Mut'im, who was the most knowing of Quraysh in the genealogies of Quraysh and the Arabs. Jubayr said: "I took genealogy from Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, and Abu Bakr was the most knowing of the Arabs in genealogy" ¹.

Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab relates that he and Uthman came to the Prophet and asked him to divide for them as he had divided for Banu Hashim and al-Muttalib — their kinship being one — but he refused, saying: "Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib are one thing" ².

He died in Mu'awiya's caliphate, in year fifty-seven, fifty-eight or fifty-nine ².