Virtues of Madinah – pt2

Narrated Zaid bin Thabit(radhiyallahu anhu): When the
Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) 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(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said, "Madinahexpels
the bad persons from it, as fire expels the impurities of iron."
(Bukhari)
Narrated Anas(radhiyallahu anhu): The Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi
wassallam) said, "O Allah! Bestow onMadinahtwice the blessings You
bestowed on Makkah." (Bukhari)
Narrated Anas(radhiyallahu anhu): Whenever the Prophet(sallallahu
alaiyhi wassallam) returned from a journey and observed the walls
ofMadinah, 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
Madinah. (Bukhari)
Narrated Anas(radhiyallahu anhu): (The people of) Bani Salama intended
to shift near the mosque (of the Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi
wassallam)) but Allah's Apostle disliked to see Madinah 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. (Bukhari)
Narrated Abu Huraira(radhiyallahu anhu): The Prophet(sallallahu
alaiyhi wassallam) said, "There is a garden from the gardens of
Paradise between my house and my pulpit, and my pulpit is on my Pool
of water (Al-Kauthar)." (Bukhari)
Narrated 'Aisha(radhiyallahu anha): When Allah's Apostle reached
Madinah, 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 good-smelling 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(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) 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 Apostle then
said, "O Allah! Make us love Madinah as we love Makkah or even more
than that. O Allah! Give blessings in our Sa and our Mudd (measures
symbolizing food) and make the climate of Madinah suitable for us, and
divert its fever towards Aljuhfa." Aisha added: When we reached
Madinah, it was the most unhealthy of Allah's lands, and the valley of
Bathan (the valley of Madinah) used to flow with impure colored water.
(Bukhari)
Narrated Zaid bin Aslam from his father: Umar(radhiyallahu anhu) said,
O Allah! Grant me martyrdom in Your cause, and let my death be in the
city of Your Apostle." (Bukhari)
Ibn Umar(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that Rasullullah(sallallahu
alaiyhi wassallam) said: "Whoever has the means to die in Madinah, let
him die there for I shall intercede on behalf of everyone who dies
there." (Bukhari)
Hazrat Abu Hurairah(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that
Rasullullah(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) has said: " O Allah ! Grant
fertility to the fruits of Madinah and to our measures. Ibrahim was
Your servant and friend. I am also Your servant and Prophet.
He(Ibrahim(alaiyis salaam) had prayed to You for fertility for Makkah,
but I pray to You for the fertility of Madinah and twice more than
him." ( Muslim)
The Prophet's Masjid in Madinah
Anas(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that Rasullullah(sallallahu alaiyhi
wassallam) said: "Whoever performs forty salaah in my Masjid, not
missing one salaah in the Masjid, for him is granted exemption from
the fire of Jahannam, and exemption and he shall remain free of
hypocrisy." (Ahmad, Tabraani)
Hazrat Anas(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that Rasullullah(sallallahu
alaiyhi wassallam) has said that the reward of salaah in his masjid
and in that of Masjid-e-Aqsa, is of fifty thousand salaahs, but the
reward of salaah in the Ka'ba, is equal to hundred thousand salaahs. (
Ibn Majah)
Hazrat Abu Saeed Khudri(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that
Rasullullah(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) has said that his masjid is
unique, the foundation of which has been laid on piety. (Muslim)
Masjid-e-Quba
Hazrat Usaid bin Huzair(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that
Rasullullah(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) said that the merit of
salaah in the Masjid of Quba is equal to performing one Umrah. (
Tirmizi)
Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that every
Saturday Rasullullah(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) would go to
Masjid-e-Quba, sometimes walking and sometimes by conveyance, and he
would perform two raka'at of salaah there." (Bukhari, Muslim)
Mount Uhud
Hazrat Anas bin Malik(radhiyallahu anhu) reports that
Rasullullah(sallallahu alaiyhi wassallam) has said that the mountain
of Uhud loved him and he loved it. (Muslim).