ibn ʿAbd Shams. (1)

His father al-Muṭʿim died in Mecca before the Battle of Badr, at a little over ninety years of age.

Ḥassān ibn Thābit is said to have composed an elegy for him, in which he declared:

If lasting glory today could grant one man immortality,
then Muṭʿim’s glory would have saved him this very day. (2)
You granted the Messenger of Allah your protection against them;
so they awoke as your vassals for as long as any pilgrim chants the talbiya and enters iḥrām.

Al-Zubayr related: al-Muʾammilī told us, from Zakariyyā ibn ʿĪsā, from al-Zuhrī, that ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ said to Abū Mūsā—when he noticed how often the latter opposed him—“Will you obey me? This affair ought not to be decided by us alone; we must bring in a group from Quraysh and consult them, for they know their own people best.”

He replied, “What you propose is excellent.”

So the two of them summoned five men: Ibn ʿAmr, Abū Juhm ibn Ḥudhayfah, Ibn al-Zubayr, Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām, and the men came to them.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated—from Abū Salamah—that Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim married a woman, named her dower, and then divorced her before consummation. He recited the verse, “Unless they forgo (their right), or the one in whose hand lies the marriage tie forgives it” (Al-Baqarah 2:237), and said, “I am more entitled to forgiveness than she is.” He therefore handed over the full dower to her.