Abu Jandal ibn Suhayl

Abū Jandal ibn Suhayl was the son of Suhayl ibn ʿAmr, the chief Qurashī negotiator at al-Ḥudaybiyyah. He had embraced Islam in Makkah and was imprisoned and tortured by his own family for years, unable to migrate to Madinah. During the very negotiation of the treaty in 6 AH, having finally escaped his confinement, he stumbled into the Muslim camp still in his chains, crying out for the Muslims to rescue him, not knowing his own father sat across from the Prophet ﷺ, nor that the clause under discussion was precisely the one requiring the return of Qurashī defectors. Suhayl seized on him at once as the first case to which the new condition would apply, producing one of the most wrenching moments of the entire Sīrah. Abū Jandal would later be freed from the treaty's terms, took part in the fighting of the Riddah, and is reported to have died a martyr in the conquests of Syria.