Virtues of Madinah

Virtues of Madinah
3.91:
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).
3.92:
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 leveled, and the
date−palm trees to be cut down. The cut date−palms were fixed
in the direction of the Qibla of the mosque.
3.93:
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."
3.94:
Narrated `Ali:
We have nothing except the Book of Allah and this written
paper from the Prophet (wherein 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.
3.95:
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.
3.96:
Narrated Abu Humaid: We came with the Prophet from Tabuk, and
when we reached near Medina, the Prophet said, "This is
Tabah."
3.97:
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."
3.98:
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."
3.99:
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."
3.100:
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).
3.101:
Narrated Sa`d:
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."
3.102:
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
raindrops fall."
3.103:
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."
3.104:
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."
3.105:
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 earthquakes will take place) and Allah will
expel all the non−believers and the hypocrites from it."
3.106:
Narrated Abu Sa`id 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.' "
3.107:
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."
3.108:
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."
3.109:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet said, "O Allah! Bestow on Medina twice the
blessings You bestowed on Mecca."
3.110:
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.
3.111:
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.
3.112:
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).
3.113:
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.
3.114:
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."