Al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah

Al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah, of the tribe of Thaqīf, lived a dissolute pre-Islamic youth as part of a small band involved in drinking and highway robbery. After a robbery against a tribe provoked a threat of war that his own people had to pay heavily to avert, his gang scattered, and al-Mughīrah eventually made his way to Madinah and embraced Islam. The Prophet ﷺ accepted his conversion but refused to allow him to bring in any of the stolen wealth from his prior life of banditry, since it remained unlawfully obtained regardless of whose it had been taken from, a ruling al-Mughīrah accepted, starting his new life with nothing.

By the time of the Treaty of al-Ḥudaybiyyah (6 AH), al-Mughīrah had become a trusted member of the Prophet's ﷺ close guard. When his own uncle ʿUrwah ibn Masʿūd, Quraysh's negotiator, repeatedly grasped the Prophet's ﷺ beard during their meeting, al-Mughīrah struck his hand away with the hilt of his sword and warned that the next attempt would cost him the hand. ʿUrwah, recognizing his nephew's voice, rebuked him as a traitor to his own people over the cost of the earlier robbery incident, a charge al-Mughīrah could not fully answer, since it carried real truth. Al-Mughīrah went on to become one of the most prominent Companions and later a governor under the Rāshidūn caliphs.