Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 4304
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَا بَيْنَ نَاحِيَتَىْ حَوْضِي كَمَا بَيْنَ صَنْعَاءَ وَالْمَدِينَةِ أَوْ كَمَا بَيْنَ الْمَدِينَةِ وَعَمَّانَ " .
Translation
Nasr ibn ‘Ali told us: My father told us: Hisham told us, from Qatadah, from Anas, who said that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘The distance between the two edges of my Basin is like the distance between Sana‘a and Madinah—or like the distance between Madinah and ‘Amman.’