ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Saʿīd said, “He settled in Ḥimṣ and was tall, fine-looking, and handsome.”

The group of biographers states that his kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, except for Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim, who maintained that his kunya was Abū ʿAbd Allāh.

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Madaʾinī remarked, “Muʿādh never had any offspring. He was tall, had beautiful teeth, large eyes, a fair complexion, and tightly-curled hair.”

Ibn Saʿd, however, reported, “He had two sons: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and another.”

ʿAṭāʾ said, “Muʿādh accepted Islam when he was eighteen years old.”

Ibn Isḥāq noted, “Among the seventy (1) from the Banū Jusham ibn al-Khazraj was Muʿādh ibn Jabal.”

Qatādah transmitted from Anas, who said, “During the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, four men gathered the entire Quran, all of them from the Anṣār: Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, Zayd, Muʿādh ibn Jabal, and Abū Zayd—one of my paternal uncles. (2)”

Aḥmad reported: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; al-Aʿmash, from Shaqīq, from Masrūq, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “Take the Quran from four: from Ibn Masʿūd, Ubayy, Muʿādh ibn Jabal, and Sālim, the freedman of Abū Ḥudhayfah.” (3)