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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