Jabir Herbert Muhammad (April 16, 1929 – August 25, 2008) was an American businessman and co-founder of Top Rank, Inc.
[1] He visited Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli in December 1971 on behalf of his father to raise fund for the Nation of Islam.
[2] Muhammad also worked as the chief business manager for the Nation of Islam,[1] and he along with Malcolm X founded their weekly newspaper.
Jabir Herbert Muhammad died on August 25, 2008, at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, at the age of 79, after undergoing heart surgery.
[3] Others questioned Muhammad's actual business acumen, given Ali's financial profligacy and lack of quality income generating activity post-retirement.