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Content of this page is taken from http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/
Translation
of Sahih Bukhari, Book 15:
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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