Jarir ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Bajali, the chief of his tribe, embraced Islam in the last years of the Prophet’s ﷺ life. He used to say: “Since I became Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ never kept me from seeing him, and never saw me without smiling” (al-Bukhari 3822). He pledged to the Prophet ﷺ to establish the prayer, give zakat and be of sincere counsel to every Muslim (al-Bukhari 57).
According to the lexicographers, jarir means a plaited leather rope placed around a camel’s neck to lead it, like a halter; al-Jawhari notes that men were named Jarir after this word. It comes from the root j-r-r, “to pull, to drag”. The name was borne by the Companion Jarir ibn ʿAbd Allah and by Jarir, one of the greatest Arab poets of the Umayyad period.
And when Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, "How wretched is that by which you have replaced me after [my departure]. Were you impatient over the matter of your Lord?" And he threw down the tablets and seized his brother by [the hair of] his head, pulling him toward him. [Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, indeed the people overpowered me and were about to kill me, so let not the enemies rejoice over me and do not place me among the wrongdoing people."
