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Virtues of
Madinah
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 91:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet said, "Medina
is a sanctuary from that place to that. Its trees should not be cut
and no heresy should be innovated nor any sin should be committed in
it, and whoever innovates in it an heresy or commits sins (bad deeds),
then he will incur the curse of Allah, the angels, and all the
people." (See Hadith No. 409, Vol 9).
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 92:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet came to
Medina and ordered a mosque to be built and said, "O Bani Najjar!
Suggest to me the price (of your land)." They said, "We do not want
its price except from Allah" (i.e. they wished for a reward from Allah
for giving up their land freely). So, the Prophet ordered the graves
of the pagans to be dug out and the land to be levelled, and the
date-palm trees to be cut down. The cut date-palms were fixed in the
direction of the Qibla of the mosque.
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 93:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "I have
made Medina a sanctuary between its two (Harrat) mountains." The
Prophet went to the tribe of Bani Haritha and said (to them), "I see
that you have gone out of the sanctuary," but looking around, he
added, "No, you are inside the sanctuary."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 94:
Narrated 'Ali:
We have nothing except
the Book of Allah and this written paper from the Prophet (where-in is
written:) Medina is a sanctuary from the 'Air Mountain to such and
such a place, and whoever innovates in it an heresy or commits a sin,
or gives shelter to such an innovator in it will incur the curse of
Allah, the angels, and all the people, none of his compulsory or
optional good deeds of worship will be accepted. And the asylum (of
protection) granted by any Muslim is to be secured (respected) by all
the other Muslims; and whoever betrays a Muslim in this respect incurs
the curse of Allah, the angels, and all the people, and none of his
compulsory or optional good deeds of worship will be accepted, and
whoever (freed slave) befriends (take as masters) other than his
manumitters without their permission incurs the curse of Allah, the
angels, and all the people, and none of his compulsory or optional
good deeds of worship will be accepted.
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 95:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "I
was ordered to migrate to a town which will swallow (conquer) other
towns and is called Yathrib and that is Medina, and it turns out (bad)
persons as a furnace removes the impurities of iron.
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 96:
Narrated Abu Humaid:
We came with the Prophet
from Tabuk, and when we reached near Medina, the Prophet said, "This
is Tabah."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 97:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
If I saw deers grazing in
Medina, I would not chase them, for Allah's Apostle said, "(Medina) is
a sanctuary between its two mountains."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 98:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah's Apostle
saying, "The people will leave Medina in spite of the best state it
will have, and none except the wild birds and the beasts of prey will
live in it, and the last persons who will die will be two shepherds
from the tribe of Muzaina, who will be driving their sheep towards
Medina, but will find nobody in it, and when they reach the valley of
Thaniyat-al-Wada', they will fall down on their faces dead."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 99:
Narrated Abu Zuhair:
I heard Allah's Apostle
saying, "Yemen will be conquered and some people will migrate (from
Medina) and will urge their families, and those who will obey them to
migrate (to Yemen) although Medina will be better for them; if they
but knew. Sham will also be conquered and some people will migrate
(from Medina) and will urge their families and those who will obey
them, to migrate (to Sham) although Medina will be better for them; if
they but knew. 'Iraq will be conquered and some people will migrate
(from Medina) and will urge their families and those who will obey
them to migrate (to 'Iraq) although Medina will be better for them; if
they but knew."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 100:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said,
"Verily, Belief returns and goes back to Medina as a snake returns and
goes back to its hole (when in danger)."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 101:
Narrated Sad:
I heard the Prophet
saying, "None plots against the people of Medina but that he will be
dissolved (destroyed) like the salt is dissolved in water."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 102:
Narrated Usama:
Once the Prophet stood at
the top of a (looked out from upon one) castle amongst the castles (or
the high buildings) of Medina and said, "Do you see what I see? (No
doubt) I see the spots where afflictions will take place among your
houses (and these afflictions will be) as numerous as the spots where
rain-drops fall."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 103:
Narrated Abu Bakra:
The Prophet said, "The
terror caused by Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal will not enter Medina and at that
time Medina will have seven gates and there will be two angels at each
gate guarding them."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 104:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said,
"There are angels guarding the entrances (or roads) of Medina, neither
plague nor Ad-Dajjal will be able to enter it."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 105:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, "There
will be no town which Ad-Dajjal will not enter except Mecca and
Medina, and there will be no entrance (road) (of both Mecca and
Medina) but the angels will be standing in rows guarding it against
him, and then Medina will shake with its inhabitants thrice (i.e.
three earth-quakes will take place) and Allah will expel all the
nonbelievers and the hypocrites from it."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 106:
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
Allah's Apostle told us a
long narrative about Ad-Dajjal, and among the many things he
mentioned, was his saying, "Ad-Dajjal will come and it will be
forbidden for him to pass through the entrances of Medina. He will
land in some of the salty barren areas (outside) Medina; on that day
the best man or one of the best men will come up to him and say, 'I
testify that you are the same Dajjal whose description was given to us
by Allah's Apostle .' Ad-Dajjal will say to the people, 'If I kill
this man and bring him back to life again, will you doubt my claim?'
They will say, 'No.' Then Ad-Dajjal will kill that man and bring him
back to life. That man will say, 'Now I know your reality better than
before.' Ad-Dajjal will say, 'I want to kill him but I cannot.' "
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 107:
Narrated Jabir:
A bedouin came to the
Prophet and gave a pledge of allegiance for embracing Islam. The next
day he came with fever and said (to the Prophet ), "Please cancel my
pledge (of embracing Islam and of emigrating to Medina)." The Prophet
refused (that request) three times and said, "Medina is like a
furnace, it expels out the impurities (bad persons) and selects the
good ones and makes them perfect."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 108:
Narrated Zaid bin Thabit:
When the Prophet went out
for (the battle of) Uhud, some of his companions (hypocrites) returned
(home). A party of the believers remarked that they would kill those
(hypocrites) who had returned, but another party said that they would
not kill them. So, this Divine Inspiration was revealed: "Then what is
the matter with you that you are divided into two parties concerning
the hypocrites." (4.88) The Prophet said, "Medina expels the bad
persons from it, as fire expels the impurities of iron."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 109:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet said, "O
Allah! Bestow on Medina twice the blessings You bestowed on Mecca."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 110:
Narrated Anas:
Whenever the Prophet
returned from a journey and observed the walls of Medina, he would
make his Mount go fast, and if he was on an animal (i.e. a horse), he
would make it gallop because of his love for Medina.
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 111:
Narrated Anas:
(The people of) Bani
Salama intended to shift near the mosque (of the Prophet) but Allah's
Apostle disliked to see Medina vacated and said, "O the people of Bani
Salama! Don't you think that you will be rewarded for your footsteps
which you take towards the mosque?" So, they stayed at their old
places.
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 112:
Narrated Abu Huraira: The
Prophet said, "There is a garden from the gardens of Paradise between
my house and my pulpit, and my pulpit is on my Lake Fount (Al-Kauthar)."
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 113:
Narrated 'Aisha:
When Allah's Apostle
reached Medina, Abu Bakr and Bilal became ill. When Abu Bakr's fever
got worse, he would recite (this poetic verse): "Everybody is staying
alive with his People, yet Death is nearer to him than His shoe
laces." And Bilal, when his fever deserted him, would recite: "Would
that I could stay overnight in A valley wherein I would be Surrounded
by Idhkhir and Jalil (kinds of good-smelling grass). Would that one
day I could Drink the water of the Majanna, and Would that (The two
mountains) Shama and Tafil would appear to me!" The Prophet said, "O
Allah! Curse Shaiba bin Rabi'a and 'Utba bin Rabi'a and Umaiya bin
Khalaf as they turned us out of our land to the land of epidemics."
Allah's Apostle then said, "O Allah! Make us love Medina as we love
Mecca or even more than that. O Allah! Give blessings in our Sa and
our Mudd (measures symbolizing food) and make the climate of Medina
suitable for us, and divert its fever towards Aljuhfa." Aisha added:
When we reached Medina, it was the most unhealthy of Allah's lands,
and the valley of Bathan (the valley of Medina) used to flow with
impure colored water.
Volume 3, Book 30, Number 114:
Narrated Zaid bin Aslam
from his father:
Umar said, O Allah! Grant
me martyrdom in Your cause, and let my death be in the city of Your
Apostle."
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