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 ."