عَن مُعاذِ بنِ جبلٍ رضى الله عنه قال:كنتُ رَدِيفَ النبيِّ ﷺ على حمارٍ، فقال: «يا معاذُ!، أتدري ما حقُّ اللهِ على العبادِ؟ وما حقُّ العبادِ على اللهِ؟» قلتُ: اللهُ ورسولُه أعلمُ. قال: «فإنَّ حقَّ الله على العبادِ أن يعبدوه ولا يُشركوا به شيئًا.وحقَّ العباد على الله أن لا يُعذِّب مَن لا يُشرك به شيئًا».قلتُ: يا رسول الله، أفلا أُبشِّر الناس؟ قال: «لا تُبَشِّرْهم فيتَّكلوا» متفق عليه.
Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal narrated:
1. I was behind the Prophet riding a donkey. 2. He said to me: “Mu‘ādh, do you know what people owe to God by right, and what right is due to them from God?” 3. I said: “God and His Messenger know best”. 4. He said: “The right people owe to God is that they must worship Him associating no partners with Him, 5. and the right due to people from God is that He shall not punish whoever does not associate partners with Him”. 6. I said: “Messenger of God, may I tell people so that they will rejoice”. He said: “Do not tell them, for then they will slacken”.
Abu ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mu‘ādh ibn Jabal ibn ‘Amr was of the Anṣār. He was 18 years old when he embraced Islam. He attended the pledge given by the Anṣār at ‘Aqabah to the Prophet (peace be upon him), when they invited him to migrate with his companions to Madinah. He was the best of the Prophet’s companions in his study of what is permissible in Islam and what is forbidden. He memorized the Qur’an during the Prophet’s lifetime. The Prophet appointed him Governor of Yemen. He died at the time of the epidemic known as ‘the ‘Amwās Plague’, during ꜤUmar’s reign. His death took place in Year 18 AH, 640 CE, when he was 38, or perhaps 34 years old.
