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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