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."