Sahih Al-Bukhari: Chapter 29

The Prophet (PbUH) 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).

The Prophet (PbUH) 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 (PbUH) 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 datepalms
were fixed in the direction of the Qibla of the mosque.

The Prophet (PbUH) said, "I have made Medina a sanctuary between its two (Harrat) mountains." The Prophet (PbUH)
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."

We have nothing except the Book of Allah and this written paper from the Prophet (PbUH) (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.

Allah's Messenger (PbUH) 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.

We came with the Prophet (PbUH) from Tabuk, and when we reached near Medina, the Prophet (PbUH) said, "This is
Tabah."

If I saw deers grazing in Medina, I would not chase them, for Allah's Messenger (PbUH) said, "(Medina) is a
sanctuary between its two mountains."

I heard Allah's Messenger (PbUH) 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."

I heard Allah's Messenger (PbUH) 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."

Allah's Messenger (PbUH) said, "Verily, Belief returns and goes back to Medina as a snake returns and goes back
to its hole (when in danger).

I heard the Prophet (PbUH) saying, "None plots against the people of Medina but that he will be dissolved
(destroyed) like the salt is dissolved in water."

Once the Prophet (PbUH) 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."

The Prophet (PbUH) 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."

Allah's Messenger (PbUH) said, "There are angels guarding the entrances (or roads) of Medina, neither plague
nor Ad-Dajjal will be able to enter it."

The Prophet (PbUH) 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."

Allah's Messenger (PbUH) 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 Messenger (PbUH) .' 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.' "

A bedouin came to the Prophet (PbUH) and gave a pledge of allegiance for embracing Islam. The next day he
came with fever and said (to the Prophet (PbUH) ), "Please cancel my pledge (of embracing Islam and of
emigrating to Medina)." The Prophet (PbUH) 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."

When the Prophet (PbUH) 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 (PbUH) said, "Medina expels the bad persons from it, as fire expels the impurities of iron."

The Prophet (PbUH) said, "O Allah! Bestow on Medina twice the blessings You bestowed on Mecca."

Whenever the Prophet (PbUH) 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.

(The people of) Bani Salama intended to shift near the mosque (of the Prophet) but Allah's Messenger (PbUH)
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.

The Prophet (PbUH) 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).

When Allah's Messenger (PbUH) 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 goodsmelling
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 (PbUH) 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 Messenger (PbUH) 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.

`Umar said, O Allah! Grant me martyrdom in Your cause, and let my death be in the city of Your
Apostle."