The Book of Pilgrimage

This hadith has been narrated by Hisham b. 'Urwa with the same chain of transmitters.

Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

He who patiently endures the hardships of it (of this city of Medina), I would be an intercessor or a withness on his behalf on the Day of Resurrection.

Yuhannis, the freed slave of Zubair, narrated that when he was sitting with Abdullah b. 'Umar (Allah be pleased with him) during the days of turmoil, his freed slave-girl came to him. After saluting him she said:

Abu Abd al-Rahmin, I have decided to leave (Medina) for the time is hard for us, whereupon Abdullah said to her: Stay here, foolish lady, for I have heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: For one who shows endurance on the hardships and rigour of it (of Medina) I would be an intercessor or a witness on his behalf on the Day of Resurrection.

Abdullah b. 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) said:

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: He who patiently endured the hardships and rigours of (this city, i. e. Medina), I would be his witness and intercessor on the Day of Resurrection.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:

For one among my Ummah who shows endurance against the hardships and rigours of Medina, I would be an intercessor or a witness on his behalf on the Day of Resurrection.

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 (ﷺ) 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 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 Messenger (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, ﷺ) 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."