The opponents
al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah
الوليد بن المغيرة
A rich elder of Banū Makhzūm whom Quraysh asked to settle on one label for the Qur'an before the pilgrims arrived.
The one who called the Qur'an magic handed down
What they did
- Ibn Kathīr records that Abū Jahl pressured him after Quraysh feared he might accept Islam, and that he then denounced the revelation.
How it was answered
- Ibn Kathīr gives this as the occasion of the āyāt in al-Muddaththir about the man given wealth and sons.
In the Qur'an
- Al-Muddaththir 74:11–26 — The one who thought and calculated, then turned away.Reported occasion of revelation
Where they appear
- Going public — and the persecution
Heard the Qur'an, admitted it was unlike poetry, then — under pressure from his people — called it magic handed down. Ibn Kathīr gives this as the occasion of al-Muddaththir 74:11–26.
How it ended
Died in Makkah in disbelief, shortly after the Hijrah.
Sources and accounts
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al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah
The one who called the Qur'an magic handed down
Ibn Kathīr records that Abū Jahl pressured him after Quraysh feared he might accept Islam, and that he then denounced the revelation.
Ibn Kathīr gives this as the occasion of the āyāt in al-Muddaththir about the man given wealth and sons.
74:11–26 — The one who thought and calculated, then turned away.
Biographical account and appearances
; Ibn Hishām; ar-Raḥīq al-Makhtūm, al-Mubārakpūrī
Connected accounts
Abū Jahl (ʿAmr ibn Hishām) — Ibn Kathīr records that Abū Jahl pressured him after Quraysh feared he might accept Islam, and that he then denounced the revelation.