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Muʿādh ibn Jabal (Arabic: مُعاذ بن جبل; 603 – 639) was a sahabi (companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[3][4] Muadh was an Ansar of the Banu Khazraj tribe and compiled the Quran with five companions while Muhammad was still alive.[3] He acquired a reputation for knowledge.[5][6] Muhammad called him "the one who will lead the scholars into Paradise".[7][3]
Mu'adh accepted Islam before the Second pledge at al-Aqabah in submission before Muhammad. Nevertheless, he was one of those who took the pledge.[7] He was a major 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 and grave. Upon hearing this, Mu'adh began to cry.
Mu'adh died in 639 due to the Plague of 'Amwas.[7][8]
The college for the study of Shariah law, at Mosul University in Iraq, is named after him.[9]
A mosque in the town of Hamtramck, Michigan, is named Masjid Mu'ath bin Jabal. There is also a mosque named Masjid Mu'adh-ibn-Jabal which is conveniently located on the outskirts of Leicester City Centre, UK in the popular Goodwood area of the city. The Masjid serves the local Muslim community of over 500 Muslim families located in and around Uppingham Road, col Road, Wakerley Road and Spencefield Lane.
There is a Mosque in Crosby, Johannesburg named after him and an accompanying islamic school or Madressah bearing his name. Located on Jamestown avenue it serves as the main Mosque in the Crosby area and surrounds. Masjid Mu’adh Bin Jabal also had a borehole dug which provides free water to all who are in need.
アル＝バイハキーは『シュアブ・アル＝イマン』（1:392 #512-513）で、またアル＝タバラニも、ムアーズ・イブン・ジャバルがムハンマドの言葉を伝えたと述べている。「楽園の人々は、ただ一つのこと、すなわち、彼らがアッラーを思い出さなかった過ぎ去った時間以外には、後悔することはないだろう。」アリー・イブン・アブー・バクル・アル＝ハイサミーは『マジュマ・アル＝ザワーイド』（10:74）で、その伝承者は皆信頼できる（thiqat）と述べ、スユーティーは『ジャーミウ・アル＝サギール』（#7701）でそれをハサンと宣言した。
イブン・アル＝ジャウジーは『シッファトゥ・サフワ』の中で、ムアーズが息子に「息子よ！まさに死を迎えようとしている人の祈りを捧げなさい。そして、二度と祈ることができなくなるかもしれないと想像しなさい。信者は二つの善行の間に死ぬのだと知りなさい。一つは既に行った善行、もう一つは後で行おうと意図した善行である。」と助言したと記録している。[ 10 ]
ムハンマド自身もムアーズの知識を称賛した。アナス・イブン・マリク（أنس بن مالك）から伝えられたところによると、アッラーの使徒はこう言った。「合法（ハラール）と非合法（ハラーム）について最も知識が豊富なのはムアーズ・イブン・ジャラールである。」