Muṭʽim ibn ʽAdi

{{Short description|Chief of the Banu Nawfal clan of the Banu Quraish tribe}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Muṭʽim ibn ʽAdi

| native_name = مطعم بن عدي

| native_name_lang = Arabic

| birth_place = Mecca

| death_date = 623

| children = Jubayr

| father = ʽAdi ibn Nawfal

}}

Muṭ{{ayin}}im ibn {{ayin}}Adi ({{langx|ar|مطعم بن عدي}}) was a non-Muslim contemporary of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the chief of the Banu Nawfal clan of the Banu Quraish tribe.A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims chapter "[http://www.al-islam.org/restatement/16.htm Muhammad's Visit to Ta'if]" quoting John Bagot Glubb's The Life and Times of Mohammed on [http://www.al-islam.org/ Al-islam.org]

Biography

=Family=

His father was 'Adi, son of Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf.

Muṭ{{ayin}}im died a non-Muslim;{{Cite web|url=http://www.sunnah.org/ibadaat/fasting/ascen3.htm|title=The Collated Hadith of Isra{{hamza}} and Mi{{ayin}}raj}} however, his son Jubayr ibn Mut'im became a Muslim.{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.al-islam.com/Arb/Dicts/SelDict.asp?DI=26&CurrPage=3&TL=1&Theme=26&RDF=1 |title=القاموس الإسلامي |accessdate=2007-01-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010726061103/http://dictionary.al-islam.com/Arb/Dicts/SelDict.asp?DI=26&CurrPage=3&TL=1&Theme=26&RDF=1 |archivedate=2001-07-26 }}

=Muhammad's era=

==Third deputation with Abu Talib ({{BH|7|614–615}})==

{{main|Third deputation with Abu Talib}}

Muṭ{{ayin}}im was part of the third deputation aimed at having Abu Talib stop protecting Muhammad.The Sealed Nectar {{cite web |url=http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx |title=SunniPath Library - Books - Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum - the Second 'Aqabah Pledge |accessdate=2007-01-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128120537/http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx |archivedate=2006-11-28 }} on sunnipath.com

==Meccan banishment of the Hashemites (617-619)==

{{main|Meccan banishment of the Hashemites}}

Muṭ{{ayin}}im, together with four other people, took a prominent initiative that resulted in the end of the Meccan banishment that was causing starvation to the Muslims.{{Cite web|url=http://www.muslimedia.com/ARCHIVES/movement03/asi-prophet.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061119040304/http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/movement03/asi-prophet.htm|url-status=dead|title=Muslimedia.com|archivedate=November 19, 2006}}

=={{ayin}}A{{hamza}}isha (ca. 615-620)==

{{main|Aisha}}

Abu Bakr had initially engaged his daughter {{ayin}}A{{hamza}}isha to Muṭ{{ayin}}im's son Jubayr ibn Muṭ{{ayin}}im some time between her pubescent 613 and 619. When Muṭ{{ayin}}im was informed that Abu Bakr had adopted Islam, he no longer wished his son to marry ‘A’isha, who later married Muhammed.

==Muhammad's visit to Ta'if (620)==

{{Main|Muhammad's visit to Ta'if}}

When Muhammad and Zayd ibn Harithah (son of Haritha, who was for a time the adopted son of Muhammad) went to Ta'if to invite them to Islam, but did not succeed and returned to Mecca, he did not return openly. Muhammad sent Zaid to seek asylum for him among his friends in Mecca. Mut‘im provided asylum for him and he returned to Mecca.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icmif.org/doc_store/takaful/Doctrines%2520Justifying%2520Takaful.doc|title=403 Forbidden}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}

==Isra and Mi{{ayin}}raj (620)==

{{main|Isra and Mi'raj}}

After Muhammad stated that he had undergone the Isra and Mi{{ayin}}raj, Muṭ{{ayin}}im said:{{quote|All of your affair before today was bearable, until what you said today. I bear witness that you are a liar. We strike the flanks of the she-camels for one month to reach the Hallowed House, then for another month to come back, and you claim that you went there in one night! By Allat, by al-‘Uzzá! I do not believe you.}}

Abu Bakr said:{{quote|O Muṭ{{ayin}}im, what an evil thing you said to the son of your brother when you faced him thus and declared him a liar! As for me I bear witness that he spoke the truth.}}

==Second pledge at al-Aqabah (622)==

{{main|Second pledge at al-Aqabah}}

Sa{{ayin}}d ibn {{ayin}}Ubadah participated in the secret Second pledged. It was not after that the Medinan pilgrims had left the city that the Meccans became aware of meeting and in a fit of rage, they pursued the pilgrims but only managed to catch hold of Sa{{ayin}}d, who they subjected to great tortures, but he was later rescued by Muṭ{{ayin}}im and Harith ibn Harb with whom Sa{{ayin}}d had trade relations.The Sealed Nectar [http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx The Second ‘Aqabah Pledge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061128120537/http://www.sunnipath.com/Resources/PrintMedia/Books/B0033P0017.aspx |date=2006-11-28 }} on sunnipath.com

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