The present invention provides a stabilized maleimide compound which is hard to discolor during storage. The maleimide compound has a content of primary amines of not more than 500 ppm or further has a content of maleic anhydride in the range of 5 to 2,000 ppm or a content of 2-amino-N-substituted succinimide compounds of not more than 300 ppm. Furthermore, it is preferable that the content of chlorine compounds reduced as a chlorine atom is not more than 10 ppm and further the content of volatile components having a boiling point of not more than 200.degree. C. at normal pressure is not more than 2,000 ppm.