Teacher of the Holy Qur'an

After the conquest of Mecca, the Holy Prophet (sa) went to Hunayn. Hunayn is a valley situated north-east of Mecca, near Ta‘if. The Holy Prophet (sa) kept Hazrat Mu‘az (ra) bin Jabal in Mecca, so that he could teach the people of Mecca about Islam and the Holy Quran.

(Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, Vol. 2, Mu‘az(ra) bin Jabal, [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, 1990] 265) (Sayyid Fadl al-Rahman, Farhang-i-Sirat [Karachi, Pakistan: Zawwar Academy Publications, 2003], 109)