Walid ibn al-Mughirah

Walid ibn al-Mughirah al-Makhzumi (Arabic: الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي‎, al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī) was the chief of the Banu Makhzum clan of the Quraysh tribe. His clan was responsible for warfare related matters.

He was the son of al-Mughīrah ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar ibn Makhzūm.

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Sources mention an Umar ibn Walid ibn Mughīrah, but it is unclear whether he was the son of Walīd.

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As one of the leaders of Quraysh in the pre-Islamic era, Walid ibn al-Mughira was one of the richest men in Mecca. His caravan trade was once estimated at one hundred camels until it was said to enter not just from one section of the city, but from all sections of Mecca until the camels reached the store at the same time.

During the pilgrimage season, which lasted forty nights, he would slaughter ten camels every day to feed the pilgrims.

It is said that Walid financed a quarter of the costs to rebuild the Kaaba (Qaaba) in Mecca in 605, with the rest of the clans combined contributing the rest. During the rebuilding of the Kaaba, Walīd asked the Quraysh leaders not to spend their ill-gotten gains and wealth for the purpose of renovation. When people were afraid to start the demolition of the Kaaba and withdrew in awe from it, Walīd said, ‘I will begin the demolition’. So he took a pick-axe, went up to it saying ‘O Allah, we intend only what is best.’ Then he demolished the part at the two corners. That night people watched, saying, ‘We will look out; if he is smitten we won’t destroy any more of it and will restore it as it was; but if nothing happens to him then Allah is pleased with what we are doing and we will demolish it.’ In the morning Walīd returned to the work of demolition and the people worked with him, until they reached the foundation of Ibrahīm.

When the Quraysh leaders saw that Muhammad refused to withdraw from his mission and continued preaching of monotheism under the protection of Abū Ṭālib, Walīd ibn al-Mughīra, along with ‘Utba ibn Rabī‘ah, Shayba p insulting their gods. They offered him in exchange to be their King and marry as many beautiful women he liked, as long as he would abandon his mission of preaching Islam. To this, Muhammad answered, “By Allah, if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left, I would not abandon it.

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