Muʿādh ibn Jabal ( ar, مُعاذ بن جبل; 605 – 639) was a

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(companion) of the Islamic prophet

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. Muadh was an '' Ansar'' of

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and compiled the

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with five companions while Muhammad was still alive. He was known as the one with a lot of knowledge. He was called by Muhammad "the one who will lead the scholars into Paradise."Islamiat for students

Biography

Era of Muhammad

Mu'adh accepted

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before the Second pledge at al-Aqabah in submission before Muhammad. Nevertheless, he was one of those who took the pledge. He was a great companion Muhammad sent Mu'adh as the

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to collect

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. When Muhammad sent Mu'adh to

to teach its people about Islam, he personally bade farewell to him, walking for some distance alongside him as he set out to leave the city. It is said that Muhammad informed him that on his return to Medina, he would perhaps see only his

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and grave. Upon hearing this, Mu'adh began to cry.

After Muhammad

Mu'adh died in 639 due to the Plague of 'Amwas.

Legacy

The college for the study of

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, at Mosul University in

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, is named after him. A mosque in the town of

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, is named Masjid Mu'ath bin Jabal.

Sayings

Al-Bayhaqi Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī ( ar, أبو بكر أحمد بن حسين بن علي بن موسى الخسروجردي البيهقي, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was born c. ...

narrated in Shu`ab al-Iman (1:392 #512-513), and so did

al-Tabarani Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī al-Shāmī al-Ṭabarānī (Arabic: أبو القاسم سليمان بن أحمد بن أيوب بن مطير اللَّخمي الشامي الطبراني) (AH 260/c. 87 ...

, that Mu`adh ibn Jabal narrated that Muhammad said: "The People of Paradise will not regret except one thing alone: the hour that passed them by and in which they made no remembrance of Allah." Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami in Majma al-Zawa'id (10:74) said that its narrators are all trustworthy (thiqat), while Suyuti declared it hasan in his Jami` al-Saghir (#7701).

Ibn al-Jawzi ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abu 'l-Faras̲h̲ b. al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (Arabic: ابن الجوزي, ''Ibn al-Jawzī''; ca. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short, or reverentially as ''Imam Ibn al-Jawzī'' by ...

recorded in Siffatu Safwah that Mu'adh advised his son, "My son! Pray the prayer of he who is just about to leave and imagine that you might not be able to pray ever again. Know that the believer dies between two good deeds; one that he performed and one that he intended to perform later on."ص136
- كتاب مواعظ الصحابة لعمر المقبل - من مواعظ معاذ بن جبل رضي الله عنه - المكتبة الشاملة الحديثة

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