Tribe

Banū al-Muṭṭalib

بنو المطلب

Mecca · pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism

Descendants of al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Manāf, brother of Hāshim. The Banū al-Muṭṭalib stood with Banū Hāshim during the Quraysh boycott (shiʿb Abī Ṭālib, c. 616-619 CE) and the Prophet ﷺ said: "Banū Hāshim and Banū al-Muṭṭalib are one thing." They share in khums of the Prophet's family.

al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Manāf

Brother of Hāshim and ʿAbd Shams. Founder of Banū al-Muṭṭalib. After Hāshim died in Gaza, al-Muṭṭalib travelled to Yathrib and brought back his nephew Shayba (= ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib) — when people in Mecca saw him with the boy, they assumed Shayba was his slave and called him "ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib" (the slave of al-Muṭṭalib), and the name stuck.

Sources: Wikipedia and classical Islamic biographical literature compiled by automated researchers.

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