"Narrated Abu Huraira:\n\nAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) 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.\n\nNarrated Abu Humaid:\n\nWe came with the Prophet (ﷺ) from Tabuk, and when we reached near Medina, the Prophet (ﷺ) said, \"This is Tabah.\"\n\nNarrated Abu Huraira:\n\nIf I saw deers grazing in Medina, I would not chase them, for Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, \"(Medina) is a sanctuary between its two mountains.\"\n\nNarrated Jabir:\n\nA bedouin came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and gave a pledge of allegiance for embracing Islam. The next day he came with fever and said (to the Prophet (ﷺ) ), \"Please cancel my pledge (of embracing Islam and of emigrating to Medina).\" The Prophet (ﷺ) 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.\"\n\nNarrated Zaid bin Thabit:\n\nWhen the Prophet (ﷺ) 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 (ﷺ) said, \"Medina expels the bad persons from it, as fire expels the impurities of iron.\"\n\nNarrated Anas:\n\nThe Prophet (ﷺ) said, \"O Allah! Bestow on Medina twice the blessings You bestowed on Mecca.\"\n\nNarrated Anas:\n\nWhenever the Prophet (ﷺ) 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.\n\nNarrated (The people of) Bani Salama:\n\nThe people of Bani Salama intended to shift near the mosque (of the Prophet) but Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) 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.\n\nNarrated Abu Huraira:\n\nThe Prophet (ﷺ) 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).\"\n\nNarrated `Aisha:\n\nWhen Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) 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 (ﷺ) 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 (ﷺ) 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."
