He was counted among the celebrated archers. It is further said that he died in 42 AH.

7 – Jabr ibn ʿAtīk ibn Qays ibn Hayshah ibn al-Hārith al-Anṣārī, of the branch of Banū Umayyah ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Mālik ibn ʿAwf ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf of the Anṣār, whose kunya was Abū ʿAbd Allāh.

A distinguished veteran of Badr—some authorities give his name as Jābir—he had three children: ʿAtīk, ʿAbd Allāh, and Umm Thābit.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ established a bond of brotherhood between him and Khabbāb ibn al-Aratt.

He was present at Badr and the later engagements, and the banner of Banū Muʿāwiyah ibn Mālik was entrusted to him on the day of the Conquest. (1)

According to al-Wāqidī, Ibn Saʿd, Khalīfah, Ibn Zabr (2), and Ibn Mandah, he died in 61 AH. It is also said that he lived to the age of ninety-one.

In the Muwaṭṭaʾ it is related through ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jābir ibn ʿAtīk, from his maternal grandfather ʿAtīk ibn al-Hārith, who said:

“Jābir ibn ʿAtīk told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to visit…”