كتاب الْمَدِينَةِMadina

Yahya ibn Yahya related to me from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi

Talha al-Ansari from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah, may

Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "O Allah! Bless them in

their measure, and bless them in their sa and mudd." He meant the

people of Madina.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Suhayl ibn Abi Salih from his

father that Abu Hurayra said, "When people saw the first fruits of the

season, they brought them to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless

him and grant him peace. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him

and grant him peace, took them and said, 'O Allah! Bless us in our

fruits. Bless us in our city. Bless us in our sa and bless us in our

mudd. O Allah! Ibrahim is Your slave, Your Khalil and Your Prophet. I

am Your slave and Your Prophet. He prayed to You for Makka. I pray to

You for Madina for the like of what He prayed to You for Makka, and

the like of it with it.' Then he called the smallest child he saw and

gave him the fruits."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Qatan ibn Wahb ibn Umayr ibn

al-Ajda that Yuhannas, the mawla of az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam informed

him that he was sitting with Abdullah ibn Umar during the troubles (at

the time of al-Hajaj ibn Yusuf) . A female mawla of his came and

greeted him. She said, "I want to leave, Abu Abd ar-Rahman. The time

is harsh for us." Abdullah ibn Umar said to her, "Sit down, O you with

little knowledge, for I have heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah

bless him and grant him peace, say, 'No one will be patient in hunger

and hardship in it (Madina) except that I will be a witness or

intercede for him on the Day of Rising.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir from

Jabir ibn Abdullah that a Bedouin took an oath of allegiance in Islam

with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

A fever befell the Bedouin at Madina. He came to the Messenger of

Allah, and said, "Messenger of Allah, release me from my pledge." The

Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, refused.

Then he came to him again and said, "Release me from my pledge." The

Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace, refused.

Then he came again and said, "Release me from my pledge." He refused.

Then he came again and said, "Release me from my pledge." He refused.

The Bedouin left and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, said, "Madina is like the blacksmith's furnace. It

removes the impurities and purifies the good."

Malik related to me that Yahya ibn Said said, "I heard

Abu'l-Hubab Said ibn Yasar say that he heard Abu Hurayra say that he

heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,

say, 'I was ordered to a town which will eat up towns. They used to

say, 'Yathrib,' but it is Madina. It removes the bad people like the

blacksmith's furnace removes impurities from the iron.' "

Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that the

Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "No

one leaves Madina preferring to live elsewhere, but that Allah will

give it better than him in place of him ."

Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father from

Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr that Sufyan ibn Abi Zuhayr said, "I heard the

Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say,

'Yemen will be conquered and the people will be attracted to it,

taking their families and whoever obeys them. Madina would have been

better for them, had they but known. Ash-Sham will be conquered and

people will be attracted to it, taking their families and whoever

obeys them. Madina would have been better for them, had they but

known. Iraq will be conquered and people will be attracted to it,

taking their families and whoever obeys them. Madina would have been

better for them, had they but known.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Himas from his paternal

uncle from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless

him and grant him peace, said, "Madina will be left in the best way

that it is until a dog or wolf enters it and urinates on one of the

pillars of the mosque or on the mimbar." They asked, "Messenger of

Allah! Who will have the fruit at that time?" He replied, "Animals

seeking food, birds and wild beasts."

Malik related to me that he had heard that when Umar ibn Abd al-

Aziz left Madina, he turned towards it and wept. Then he said, "O

Muzahim! Do you fear that we might be among those that Madina casts

off?"

Yahya related to me from Malik from Amr, the mawla of al-Muttalib

from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him

and grant him peace, saw Uhud and said, "This is a mountain which

loves us and we love it. O Allah! Ibrahim made Makka Haram, and I will

make what is between the two tracts of black stones (in Madina) a

Haram."

Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al-Musayyab

that Abu Hurayra said, "Had I seen a gazelle at Madina, I would have

left it to graze and would not have frightened it. The Messenger of

Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'What is between

the two tracts of black stones is a Haram.' "

Malik related to me from Yunus ibn Yusuf from Ata ibn Yasar that

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari found some boys who had driven a fox into a

corner, and he chased them away from it.

Malik said, "I only

know that he said, 'Is this done in the Haram of the Messenger of

Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from a man who said, "Zayd ibn

Thabit came across me while I was at al-Aswaf (on the outskirts of

Madina). I had captured a hawk. He took it from my hands and set it

free."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his

father that A'isha, umm al-muminin said, "When the Messenger of Allah,

may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to Madina, Abu Bakr and

Bilal came down with a fever. I visited them and said, 'Father, how

are you? Bilal, how are you?'" She continued, "When Abu Bakr's fever

worsened he would say, 'Every man is struck down among his people in

the morning - death is nearer than the strap of his sandal.'"

When it left Bilal, he raised his voice and said, 'Would that I knew

whether I will spend a night at the valley of Makka with the idhkhir

herb and jalil herb around me. Will I go one day to the waters of

Majinna? Will the mountains of Shama and Tafil appear to me?' " '

A'isha continued, "I went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah

bless him and grant him peace, and informed him. He said, 'O Allah!

Make us love Madina as much as we love Makka or even more. Make it

sound and bless us in our sa and mudd. Remove its fever and put it in

al-Juhfa.' "

Malik said that Yahya ibn Said had related to him that A'isha

said that Amir ibn Fuhayra had said at the time of the epidemic, "I

have seen death before tasting it, the coward's destination is from

above him."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nuaym ibn Abdullah al-Mujmir

that Abu Hurayra said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him

and grant him peace, said, 'There are angels at the entries of Madina,

and neither plague nor the Dajjal will enter it.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ismail ibn Abi Hakim that he

heard Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz say, "One of the last things that the

Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said was,

'May Allah fight the jews and the christians. They took the graves of

their Prophets as places of prostration . Two deens shall not co-exist

in the land of the Arabs.' "

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that the Messenger

of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two deens

shall not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula."

Malik said that

Ibn Shihab said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab searched for information about

that until he was absolutely convinced that the Messenger of Allah,

may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had said, 'Two deens shall

not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula,' and he therefore expelled the

jews from Khaybar."

Malik said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab expelled the jews from Najran

(a jewish settlement in the Yemen) and Fadak (a jewish settlement

thirty miles from Madina). When the jews of Khaybar left, they did not

take any fruit or land. The jews of Fadak took half the fruit and half

the land, because the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, had made a settlement with them for that. So Umar

entrusted to them the value in gold, silver, camels, ropes and saddle

bags of half the fruit and half the land, and handed the value over to

them and expelled them."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his

father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, came in view of Uhud and said, "This is a mountain which loves

us and we love it."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Abd ar-

Rahman ibn al-Qasim that Aslam, the mawla of Umar ibn al-Khattab

informed him that he had visited Abdullah ibn Ayyash al-Makhzumi. He

saw that he had some nabidh with him and he was at that moment on the

way to Makka. Aslam said to him, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab loves this

drink." Abdullah ibn Ayyash therefore carried a great drinking bowl

and brought it to Umar ibn al-Khattab and placed it before him. Umar

brought it near to him and then raised his head. Umar said, "This

drink is good," so he drank some of it and then passed it to a man on

his right. When Abdullah turned to go, Umar ibn al-Khattab called him

and asked, "Are you the person who says that Makka is better than

Madina?" Abdullah said, "I said that it was the Haram of Allah, and

His place of security, and His House was in it." Umar said, "I am not

saying anything about the House of Allah or His Haram." Then Umar

repeated "Are you the person who says that Makka is better than

Madina?" He replied, "I said that it was the Haram of Allah and His

place of security, and His House was in it." Umar said, "I am not

saying anything about the House of Allah and His Haram." Then Abdullah

left.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abd al-Hamid

ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab from Abdullah ibn Abdullah

ibn al-Harith ibn Nawfal from Abdullah ibn Abbas that Umar ibn al-

Khattab set out for ash Sham and when he was at Sargh, near Tabuk, the

commanders of the army, Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah and his companions,

met him and told him that the plague had broken out in ash-Sham. Ibn

Abbas said, "Umar ibn al-Khattab said, 'all the first Muhajir unto

me.' He assembled them and asked them for advice, informing them that

the plague had broken out in ash Sham. They disagreed. Some said, 'You

have set out for something, and we do not think that you should leave

it.' Others said, 'You have the companions of the Prophet, may Allah

bless him and grant him peace, and the rest of the people with you,

and we do not think that you should send them towards this plague.'

Umar said, 'Leave me.'

Then he said, 'Summon the Ansar to

me.' They were summoned and he asked them for advice. They acted as

the Muhajirun had and disagreed as they had disagreed. He said, 'Leave

me.' "Then he said, 'Summon to me whoever is here of the aged men of

Quraysh from the Muhajirun of the conquest.' He summoned them and not

one of them differed. They said, 'We think that you should withdraw

the people and not send them towards the plague.' Umar called out to

the people, 'I am leaving by camel in the morning,' so they set out.

Abu Ubayda said, 'Is it flight from the decree of Allah?' Umar said,

'Better that someone other than you had said it, Abu Ubayda. Yes. We

flee from the decree of Allah to the decree of Allah. What would you

think if these camels had gone down into a valley which had two

slopes, one of them fertile, and the other barren. If you pastured in

the fertile part, wouldn't you pasture them by the decree of Allah? If

you pastured them in the barren part, wouldn't you pasture them by the

decree of Allah?'

''Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf arrived and he had

been off doing something and he said, 'I have some knowledge of this.

I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, say, "If you hear about it in a land, do not go forward to it.

If it comes upon a land and you are in it, then do not depart in

flight from it." ' Umar praised Allah and then set off."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir and

from Salim ibn Abi'n-Nadr, the mawla of Umar ibn Ubaydullah that Amir

ibn Sad ibn Abi Waqqas heard his father ask Usama ibn Zayd, "Have you

heard anything from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, about the plague?" Usama said, "The Messenger of

Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'The plague is a

punishment that was sent down on a party of the Banu Israil or whoever

was before them. When you hear of it in a land, do not enter it. If it

comes upon a land and you are in it, do not depart in flight from it.'

"

Malik said that Abu'n-Nadr said, "That is, do not depart

with no other intention but flight."

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abdullah ibn

Amir ibn Rabia that Umar ibn al-Khattab went out to ash-Sham. When he

came to Sargh, near Tabuk, he heard that the plague had broken out in

ash-Sham. Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf told him that the Messenger of Allah,

may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If you hear that a

land has a plague in it, do not go forward to it. If it comes upon a

land which you are in, do not depart in flight from it." Umar ibn al-

Khattab came back from Sargh.

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Salim ibn

Abdullah that Umar ibn al-Khattab turned people back at Sargh

according to the hadith of Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf.

Yahya related to me that Malik said, "I heard that Umar ibn al-

Khattab said, 'A night in Rukba (a valley near Taif,) is more

preferable to me than ten nights in ash-Sham.' "

Malik said,

"He meant to lengthen and preserve their lives because of the severity

of the plague in ash-Sham ."