- Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim ibn ʿAdī ibn Nawfal al-Nawfalī, a descendant of ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy and the leading elder of Quraysh in his day. His kunya was Abū Muḥammad—though some say Abū ʿAdī. He was a Qurashī of the clan of Nawfal and a paternal cousin of the Prophet ﷺ.
He was one of the amnestied Meccans (ṭulaqāʾ) whose submission to Islam later became exemplary, and he had come to Medina to arrange the ransom of the prisoners taken from his people.
Renowned, like his father, for forbearance and sound judgment, it was his father who took the initiative in annulling the boycott scroll ⦗1⦘. He would show compassion to those confined in the ravine and secretly provide for them. For that reason the Prophet ﷺ said on the Day of Badr, “Had Muṭʿim ibn ʿAdī been alive and pleaded with me regarding these vile captives, I would have set them free for his sake ⦗2⦘.” Muṭʿim had also offered the Prophet ﷺ his protection when he returned from al-Ṭāʾif, allowing him to perform the circuits of ʿumrah.
Jubayr later became a noble, widely-obeyed figure and transmitted ḥadith. Among those who narrated from him were his two jurist sons, Muḥammad and Nāfiʿ; Sulaymān ibn Ṣurad; Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib; Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Azhar; and others,