Mutaib was one of the sons of
Abdullah bin Ali Al Rashid who established the Emirate of Jabal Shammar in 1836 and ruled it until 1848.{{cite journal|author=Henry Rosenfeld|title=The social composition of the military in the process of state formation in the Arabian Desert Mutaib succeeded his older brother, Talal, in 1868.{{cite thesis|author=Michael John Baran|title=The Rashidi Amirate of Hayl: The Rise, Development and Decline of a Pre-Modern Arabian Principality, 1835–1921|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/303993600 One of Mutaib's sons,
Abdulaziz, was adopted by his uncle, Muhammad, and ruled the Emirate between 1897 and 1906.{{cite journal|author=Jeff Eden|title=Did Ibn Saud's militants cause 400,000 casualties? Myths and evidence about the Wahhabi conquests, 1902–1925|journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies|year=2019|volume=46|issue=4|page=525|doi=10.1080/13530194.2018.1434612 ==References==