Mudad ibn Amr al-Jurhumi

Mudad ibn Amr, the great chief and lord of Jurhum in the story of Isma'il as al-Mubarakfuri relays it from al-Bukhari. ^{1 2}

When Isma'il grew up and learned Arabic from Jurhum, and they admired him, they married him to one of their women. When Ibrahim came to look at his estate, that woman complained to him of hardship in living. He told her to change the threshold of Isma'il's door. Isma'il understood, divorced her, and married another woman, the daughter of Mudad ibn Amr. ^{1 2} The lineage of the Jurhum is traced by the same source. ^{3 4}

After Isma'il, his two sons Nabit and Qaydar ruled Mecca, and after them their grandfather Mudad ibn Amr al-Jurhumi ruled it. The leadership of Mecca passed to Jurhum and stayed in their hands. Isma'il's descendants held a respected position because of their father's building of the House, but they had no share of the rule. ^{5 6 7 8 9}

The author notes that this Mudad, the great Jurhumi who is mentioned in the story of Isma'il, is not Amr ibn al-Harith ibn Mudad, who buried the gazelles of the Ka'ba in the Zamzam at the expulsion of Jurhum. ⁸