Sahih Muslim — hadith #3226–#3250
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A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: None who shows endurance on the hardships of Medina,... (the rest of the hadith is the same).
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: There are at the approaches of Medina angels so that plague and the Dajjal shall not penetrate into it.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Dajjal will come from the eastern side with the intention of attacking Medina until he will get down behind Uhud. Then the angels will turn his face towards Syria and there he will perish.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: A time will come for the people (of Medina) when a man will invite his cousin and any other near relation: Come (and settle) at (a place) where living is cheap, come to where there is plenty, but Medina will be better for them; would they know it! By Him in Whose Hand is my life, none amongst them would go out (of the city) with a dislike for it, but Allah would make his successor in it someone better than be. Behold. Medina is like furnace which eliminates from it the impurities. And the Last Hour will not come until Medina banishes its evils just as a furnace eliminates the impurities of iron.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying: I have been commanded (to migrate) to a town (Medina) which would overpower other towns. They (the people) call it Yathrib; its correct name is (in fact) Medina. It eliminates (bad) people just as a furnace removes the alloy of iron.
This hadith has been narrated by Yabya b. Sa'id with the same chain of transmitters (and the words are): " Just as a furance removes impurity," but no mention is made of iron.
Jabir b. `Abdullah (Allah be pleased with them) reported that a desert Arab swore allegiance to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). He suffered from a severe fever in Medina (and) so he came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying: Muhammad, cancel my oath of allegiance. But Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) refused it. He again came and said: Cancel my oath of allegiance. But he (the Holy Prophet) refused it. He again came to him and said: Cancel my oath of allegiance, but he refused. The desert Arab, however, went away (cancelling the allegiance himself). Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Medina is like a furnace which drives away its impurity and purifies what is good.
Zaid b. Thabit reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying: It is Taiba, thereby meaning Medina. It drives away impurity just as fire removes the impurity of silver.
Jabir b. Samura (Allah be pleased with him) reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) say: Allah named Medina as Tabba.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Abul-Qasim (Muhammad, may peace be upon him) said: He who intends to do harm to the people of this city (that is, Medina), Allah would efface him as salt is dissolved in water.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: He who intends to do harm to its people (he meant Medina), Allah would efface him as salt is dissolved in water. Ibn Hatim (one of the narrators) substituted the word" harm" for" mischief".
This hadith is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira by another chain of transmitters.
Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: He who intends to do harm to the people of Medina, Allah would efface him just as water dissolves salt.
Sa'd b. Malik heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying like this except (this variation) that he said: " Sudden attack or harm."
Abu Huraira and Sa'd reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying: O Allah, bless the people of Medina in their mudd, the rest of the hadith being the same, and in It (this is also mentioned):" He wo intends to do harm to its people, Allah would efface him just as salt it dissolved in water."
Sufyan b. Abd Zuhair reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Syria will be conquered and some people will go out of Medina along with their families driving their camels. and Medina is better for them if they were to know it. Then Yemen will be conquered and some people will go out of Medina along with their families driving their camels, and Medina is better for them if they were to know it. Then Iraq will be conquered and some people will go out of it along with their families driving their camels, and Medina is better for them if they were to know it.
Sufyan b. Abu Zuhair heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) say: Yemen will be conquered and some people will go away (to that country) driving their camels and carrying their families on them and those who are under their authority, while Medina is better for them if they were to know it. Then Syria will be conquered and some people will go away driving their camels along with them and carrying their families with them and those who are under their authority, while Medina is better for theni if they were to know it. Thtn lraq will be conquered and some people will go away (to that country) driving their camels and carrying their families with them and those who are under their authority. while Medina is better for them if they were to know it.
Salid b. Musayyib heard Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) say that 'Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said about Medina: Its inhabitants will abandon it, whereas it is good for them and it will become the haunt of beasts and birds. (Imam Muslim said that Abu Safwan, one of the narrators whose name was 'Abdullah b. 'Abd al-Malik, was an orphan and I bn juraij took him under his care for ten years.)
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) say: They (the residents of) Medina will abandon Medina whereas it is good for them and it will be haunted by beasts and birds, and two shepherds will come out from Muzainah intending (to go) towards Medina and tending their herd, and will find nothing but wilderness there until when they will reach the mountain path of Wada, they will fall down on their faces.
AbduUah b. Zaid al-Mazini (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: That which is between my house" and my pulpit is a garden from the gardens of Paradise.
Abdullah b. Zaid al-Ansari heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: That which exists between my pulpit and my house is a garden from the gardens of Paradise.
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: That which exists between my house and my pulpit is a garden from the gardens of Paradise, and my pulpit is upon my cistern.
Abu Humaid (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We went out along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in the expedition of Tabuk, and Abu Humaid further related: We proceeded until we reached the valley of Qura; and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: I am going forth, so he among you who wants to move fast with me may do so; and he who likes to go slowly may do so. We proceeded until Medina was within our sight, and he said: This is Tabah (another name of Medina); this is Uhud, the mountain which loves us and we love it.
Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him) as saying: Uhud is a mountain which loves us and which we love.