Muʿādh ibn Jabal ( ar, مُعاذ بن جبل; 605 – 639) was a
sahabi (companion) of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad. Muadh was an ''
Ansar'' of
Banu Khazraj and compiled the
Quran 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."
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Biography
Era of Muhammad
Mu'adh accepted
Islam
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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
governor of
Yemen to collect
zakat. When Muhammad sent Mu'adh to
Yemen 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
masjid
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and grave. Upon hearing this, Mu'adh began to cry.
After Muhammad
Mu'adh died in 639 due to the
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.
Legacy
The college for the study of
Shariah law, at
Mosul University in
Iraq, is named after him.
A mosque in the town of
Hamtramck,
Michigan, 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, 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 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."
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- كتاب مواعظ الصحابة لعمر المقبل - من مواعظ معاذ بن جبل رضي الله عنه - المكتبة الشاملة الحديثة
See also
*Sahaba
The Companions of the Prophet ( ar, اَلصَّحَابَةُ; ''aṣ-ṣaḥāba'' meaning "the companions", from the verb meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with") were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or m ...
* List of Sahabah
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References
Citations
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603 births
639 deaths
Companions of the Prophet
7th-century deaths from plague (disease)