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MUADH IBN JABAL (R.A)
Posted By:jasmin On 6/23/2008

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MUADH IBN JABAL

Muadh ibn Jabal was a young man growing up in Yathrib
as the light of guidance and truth began to spread
over the Arabian peninsula. He was a handsome and
imposing character with black eyes and curly hair and
immediately impressed whoever he met. He was already
distinguished for the sharpness of his intelligence
among young men of his own age. The young Muadh became
a Muslim at the hands of Musab ibn Umayr, the daiy
(missionary) whom the Prophet had sent to Yathrib
before the hijrah. Muadh was among the seventy-two
Yathribites who journeyed to Makkah, one year before
the hijrah, and met the Prophet at his house and later
again in the valley of Mina, outside Makkah, at
Aqabah. Here the famous second Aqabah Pledge was made
at which the new Muslims of Yathrib, including some
women, vowed to support and defend the Prophet at any
cost. Muadh was among those who enthusiastically
clasped the hands of the blessed Prophet then and
pledged allegiance to him. As soon as Muadh returned
to Madinah from Makkah, he and a few others of his age
formed a group to remove and destroy idols from the
houses of the mushrikeen in Yathrib. One of the
effects of this campaign was that a prominent man of
the city, Amr ibn al-Jumuh, became a Muslim. When the
noble Prophet reached Madinah, Muadh ibn Jabal stayed
in his company as much as possible. He studied the
Quran and the laws of Islam until he became one of the
most well-versed of all the companions in the religion
of Islam. Wherever Muadh went, people would refer to
him for legal judgments on matters over which they
differed. This is not strange since he was brought up
in the school of the Prophet himself and learnt as
much as he could from him. He was the best pupil of
the best teacher. His knowledge bore the stamp of
authenticity. The best certificate that he could have
received came from the Prophet himself when he said:
"The most knowledgeable of my ummah in matters of
Halal and haram is Muadh ibn Jabal."

 One of the greatest of Muadhs contributions to the
ummah of Muhammad was that he was one of the group of
six who collected the Quran during the lifetime of the
Prophet, peace be upon him. Whenever a group of
companions met and Muadh was among them, they would
look at him with awe and respect on account of his
knowledge. The Prophet and his two Khalitahs after him
placed this unique gift and power in the service of
Islam . After the liberation of Makkah, the Quraysh
became Muslims en masse. The Prophet immediately saw
the need of the new Muslims for teachers to instruct
them in the fundamentals of Islam and to make them
truly understand the spirit and letter of its laws. He
appointed Attab ibn Usay as his deputy in Makkah and
he asked Muadh ibn Jabal to stay with him and teach
people the Quran and instruct them in the religion.
Sometime after the Prophet had returned to Madinah,
messengers of the kings of Yemen came to him
announcing that they and the people of Yemen had
become Muslims. They requested that some teachers
should be with them to teach Islam to the people. For
this task the Prophet commissioned a group of
competent duat (missionaries) and made Muadh ibn Jabal
their amir. He then put the following question to
Muadh:

 "According to what will you judge?"

 "According to the Book of God," replied Muadh. "And
if you find nothing therein?"

 "According to the Sunnah of the Prophet of God."

 "And if you find nothing therein?"

 "Then I will exert myself (exercise ijtihad) to form
my own judgment."

 The Prophet was pleased with this reply and said:
"Praise be to God Who has guided the messenger of the
Prophet to that which pleases the Prophet."

 The Prophet personally bade farewell to this mission
of guidance and light and walked for some distance
alongside Muadh as he rode out of the city. Finally he
said to him:

 "O Muadh, perhaps you shall not meet me again after
this year. Perhaps when you return you shall see only
my mosque and my grave." Muadh wept. Those with him
wept too. A feeling of sadness and desolation overtook
him as he parted from his beloved Prophet, peace and
blessings of God be on him. The Prophet's premonition
was correct. The eyes of Muadh never beheld the
Prophet after that moment. The Prophet died before
Muadh returned from the Yemen. There is no doubt that
Muadh wept when he returned to Madinah and found there
was no longer the blessed company of the Prophet.
During the caliphate of Umar, Muadh was sent to the
Banu Kilab to apportion their stipends and to
distribute the sadaqah of their richer folk among the
poor. When he had done his duty, he returned to his
wife with his saddle blanket around his neck, empty
handed, and she asked him:

 "Where are the gifts which commissioners return with
for their families?" "I had an alert Supervisor who
was checking over me," he replied. "You were a trusted
person with the messenger of God and with Abu Bakr.
Then Umar came and he sent a supervisor with you to
check on you!' she exclaimed. She went on to talk
about this to the women of Umar's household and
complained to them about it. The complaint eventually
reached Umar, so he summoned Muadh and said:

 "Did I send a supervisor with you to check on you?"

 "No, Amir al-Mumineen," he said, "But that was the
only reason I could find to give her." Umar laughed
and then gave him a gift, saying, "I hope this pleases
you."

 Also during the caliphate of Umar, the governor of
Syria, Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan sent a message saying:

 "O Amir al-Mumineen! The people of Syria are many.
They fill the towns. They need people to teach them
the Quran and instruct them in the religion."

 Umar thereupon summoned five persons who had
collected the Quran in the lifetime of the Prophet,
peace be upon him. They were Muadh ibn Jabal, Ubadah
ibn asSamit, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Ubayy ibn Kab and
Abu adDardaa. He said to them:

 "Your brothers in Syria have asked me to help them by
sending those who can teach them the Quran and
instruct them in the religion. Please appoint three
among you for this task and may God bless you. I can
select three of you myself if you do not want to put
the matter to the vote."

 "Why should we vote?" they asked. "Abu Ayyub is quite
old and Ubayy is a sick man. That leaves three of us."
"All three of you go to Homs first of all. If you are
satisfied with the condition of the people there, one
of you should stay there, another should go to
Damascus and the other to Palestine."

 So it was that Ubadah ibn as-Samit was left at Homs,
Abu ad-Dardaa went to Damascus and Muadh went to
Palestine. There Muadh fell ill with an infectious
disease. As he was near to death, he turned in the
direction of the Kabah and repeated this refrain:
"Welcome Death, Welcome. A visitor has come after a
long absence . . ." And looking up to heaven, he said:
"O Lord, You know that I did not desire the world and
to prolong my stay in it . . . O Lord, accept my soul
with goodness as you would accept a believing soul..."


 He then passed away, far from his family and his
clan, a daiy in the service of God and a muhajir in
His path.



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