Labour whip Mr McGinn alleged the party leader had considered calling his father in an attempt to "apply pressure" on him following public criticism of Mr Corbyn.
Jeremy Corbyn has told Sky News he is not a bully following allegations from senior Labour MPs Connor McGinn and Angela Eagle.
But the Labour leader, who denies the allegation, said: "I don't do any abuse, I don't do any bullying, I don't allow it to be done."
The St Helens North MP accused the party leader of hypocrisy for talking about a "kinder, gentler politics" when "he had proposed using my family against me".
It began when Mr McGinn, who was made a whip when Mr Corbyn was elected leader last September, gave an interview to The House magazine in May.
In a statement, he says: "I outlined my views on a range of issues, including the need for Labour to re-engage with our working class base.
"I mentioned Jeremy in this interview only once, when I respectfully suggested that he had a challenge to reach out beyond his comfort zone and his own constituency to traditional Labour voters across the country."
He continues: "It transpired that Jeremy, in deliberations about how to respond to my interview, had said that he intended to ring my father to discuss it with him and ask him to speak to me about it.
"The leader of the Labour Party was proposing to address an issue with one of his own MPs by ringing his dad.
"Jeremy does not know my father so I can only presume that, because of the much-publicised fact that my father was a Sinn Fein councillor, Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me.
"Thankfully, others dissuaded Jeremy from taking this course of action.
"The call was not made, and it would not have been well received."
Jeremy Corbyn on #Newsnight tonight talking about kinder, gentler politics. A hypocrite who tried to bully me by using my family against me.
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