As for Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim ⦗1⦘ ibn ʿAdī ibn Nawfal ibn ʿAbd Manāf al-Qurashī al-Nawfalī, whose kunya was Abū Muḥammad—though some say Abū ʿAdī ⦗2⦘—a resident of Madinah: he came while still a polytheist to ransom the prisoners of Badr. When he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reciting in Sūrah al-Ṭūr, “Were they created from nothing, or are they themselves the creators?” (Q 52:35), faith settled in his heart. He later embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar; others say at the time of the Conquest, but the first view is more reliable. He was one of Quraysh’s nobles and the most learned among them in genealogy, having taken that knowledge from al-Ṣiddīq. The prevalent report is that he died in 58 AH, though some place it in 59 AH.
As for Ḥassān ibn Thābit—the Poet of Islam—the sound opinion is that he died in 54 AH, as will be mentioned later.
Al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAmr ibn Mujaddaʿ al-Ghifārī ⦗3⦘, the brother of Rāfiʿ ibn ʿAmr al-Ghifārī and also known as al-Ḥakam ibn al-Aqraʿ, was a venerable Companion. Al-Bukhārī ⦗4⦘ transmits from him a single hadith prohibiting the meat of domesticated donkeys.
Ziyād ibn Abīh appointed him to lead the expedition against Mount al-Ashal ⦗5⦘, where he captured a considerable amount of gold, silver, and other spoils. A letter then arrived from Ziyād, written in the name of Muʿāwiyah, instructing him to reserve for Muʿāwiyah’s treasury whatever gold and silver the booty contained. Al-Ḥakam replied, “The Book of Allah takes precedence over the command of the Commander of the Believers. Has he not heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say, ‘There is no obedience…’”
(1) al-Nasab fī Quraysh, p. 201; al-Tabaqāt al-Khalīfa, p. 43; Tārīkh al-Khalīfa, pp. 68, 154, 177, 266; al-Muḥbir, pp. 67, 69; al-ʿIlal li-Aḥmad, 1:204; Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Kabīr, 2:223; al-Maʿārif, p. 285; al-Maʿrifa wa-al-Tārīkh, 1:364, 368; 2:206; al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, 2:512; Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān, 3:50; Mashāhīr ʿUlamā’ al-Amṣār, p. 35; Muʿjam al-Ṭabarānī al-Kabīr, 2:112; Jumhūrat Ansāb al-ʿArab, p. 116; al-Istīʿāb, 1:230; Asad al-Ghāba, 1:323; Tahdhīb al-Asāmī wa-al-Lughāt, 1:146; Mukhtaṣar Tārīkh Dimashq, 6:5; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, 4:506; Tārīkh al-Islām, 2:274; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, 3:95; al-ʿIbar, 1:59; al-Kāshif, 1:125; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, 1:102a; Mirʾāt al-Jinān, pp. 127, 130; al-ʿAqd al-Thamīn, 3:408; al-Iṣāba, 1:225; Tahdhīb Ibn Ḥajar, 2:63; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, p. 60; Shudhūrāt al-Dhahab, 1:266.
(2) In readings (a) and (b) the name is erroneously rendered as ‘Isa.
(3) Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd, 7:28; Tārīkh Ibn Muʿīn, 2:126; al-Tabaqāt al-Khalīfa, pp. 175, 321; Tārīkh al-Khalīfa, p. 211; Musnad Aḥmad, 4:212; 5:66; Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Kabīr, 2:328; Tārīkh al-Bukhārī al-Ṣaghīr, p. 140; al-Maʿrifa wa-al-Tārīkh, 3:25; al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, 3:119; Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān, 3:84; Mashāhīr ʿUlamā’ al-Amṣār, p. 415; Muʿjam al-Ṭabarānī al-Kabīr, 3:233; Mustadrak al-Ḥākim, 3:441; Jumhūrat Ansāb al-ʿArab, p. 186; al-Istīʿāb, 1:356; al-Ikmāl li-Ibn Makūla, 7:223; Ansāb al-Samʿānī, 9:165; Asad al-Ghāba, 2:40; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, 7:124; Tārīkh al-Islām, 2:220; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā’, 2:474; Tadhhīb al-Tahdhīb, 1:168; al-Kāshif, 1:183; Tajrīd Asmā’ al-Ṣaḥāba, 1:136; Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid, 9:410; al-Iṣāba, 2:273; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb, 2:436; Khulāṣat al-Khazarjī, p. 89.
(4) al-Ḏabāʾiḥ, 9:564 (on sacrificial animals).
(5) “al-Ashl”: a mountain on the Khurāsān frontier (al-Muʿjam al-Buldān, 1:200).