[1] He was the son of Muti ibn al-Aswad; they belonged to the Banu Adi clan of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca.
[2][3] He owned shared residential property in the city with a companion of Muhammad and poet Zayd ibn Thabit.
The two entered into a legal dispute over the property which was arbitrated by Marwan ibn al-Hakam, the governor of the city in 661–668.
[1] His grandson Abd al-Aziz ibn Ibrahim participated in the rebellion of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 762/763 and was arrested, given lashes and released by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur.
[10] The people of Medina rose in revolt and Yazid dispatched his Syrian troops led by Muslim ibn Uqba to subdue the city.
[9][14] Upon hearing from his advisers news of Ibn Muti's appointment, the Syria-based Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik called him "a brave man who has fallen many a time, and a valiant one, how he hates fleeing".
[19][18] Ibn Muti praised the Arab nobles on his side and dismissed Mukhtar's supporters as lowly men before evacuating.
[18] In a different account of events, Ibn Muti departs Kufa after being granted 100,000 silver dirhams and safe conduct by al-Mukhtar.