The Book of Pilgrimage

كتاب الحج

Chapter 74: A woman travelling with a Mahram for Hajj and other purposes

Ibn Juraij narrated this hadith with the same chain of transmitters, but he made no mention of it

" No person (man) should be alone with a woman except when there is a Mahram with her."

Chapter 76: What should be said when returning from Hajj and other journeys

Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) reported

I and Abu Talha (both) came back along with Allah's Apostle (ﷺ). Safiyyah (the wife of the Holy Prophet) rode behind him on his camel and as we came to the out- skirts of Medina he said: (We are those) who return, who repent, who worship our Lord, who praise (Him), and he went on uttering this until we entered Medina.

Chapter 77: It is recommended to stop in Batha' of Dhul-Hulaifah and pray there when departing from Hajj and 'Umrah, or any time one passes through it

Abdullah b. 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) made (his camel) kneel down (i, e. halt at the stony ground of Dhu'l-Hulaifa) and prayed there, and so did Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them).

Nafi' reported that 'Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them) used to halt his camel in the stony ground at Dhu'l-Hulaifa, where Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to make a halt (and pray).

Chapter 85: The virtue of Al-Madinah and the Prophet's Prayer for it to be blessed. Its sanctity and the sanctity of its game and trees. The Boundaries of its sanctuary

This hadith has been narrated through another chain of transmitters with a slight variation of words.

Rafi' b. Khadij reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Ibrahim declared Mecca as sacred and I declare sacred the area between its two stony grounds (lava lands by which he meant Medina).

Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father (Allah be pleased with him) that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

I have declared sacred the territory between the two lava plains of Medina, so its trees should not be cut down, or its game killed; and he also said: Medina is best for them if they knew. No one leaves it through dislike of it without Allah putting in it someone better than he in place of him; and no one will stay there in spite of its hardships and distress without my being an intercessor or witness on behalf of him on the Day of Resurrection.

'Amir b. Sa'd reported that Sa'd rode to his castle in al-'Aqiq and found a slave cutting down the trees, or beating off their leaves, so he stripped him off his belongings. When Sa'd returned, there came to him the masters of the slave and negotiated with him asking him to return to their slave or to them what he had taken from their slave, whereupon he said

God forbid that I should return anything which Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has given me as spoil, and refused to return anything to them.

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters (but at the end) these words are added

" He who violated the covenant with a Muslim, there is upon him the curse of Allah, of angels and of all people. Neither an obligatory act nor a supererogatory act would be accepted from him as recompense on the Day of Resurrection; and in the hadith transmitted by two other narrators these words are not found:" He who claimed false paternity." And in the hadith transmitted by Waki' there is no mention of the Day of Resurrection.

Chapter 86: Encouragement to live in Al-Madinah and to be patient on bearing its distress and hardships

Abu Sa'id al-Kbudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

O Allah, bless us in our sa' and mud and shower with its blessings two other blessings (multiply blessings showerted upon it).

Sahl b. Hunif reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) pointed with his hands towards Medina and said

That is a sacred territory and a place of safety.

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).

Chapter 88: Al-Madinah eliminates its Dross and it is also called Tabah, and Taibah

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.

Chapter 89: The prohibition of wishing ill towards the people of Al-Madinah, and that the one who wishes them ill will be caused to melt by Allah

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."

Chapter 91: The Prophet saws foretold that the people will abandon Al-Madinah when it is the best it ever was

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.

Chapter 92: The virtue of the area between the prophet's grave and his Minbar, and the virtue of the spot where his minbar is

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.

Chapter 93: The virtue of Uhud

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.

Chapter 94: The virtue of praying in the Masajid of Makkah and Al-Madinah

Yahya b. Sa'id (Allah be pleased with him) reported

I said to Abu Salih: Did you hear Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) making a mention of the excellence of prayer in the mosque of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)? He said: No (I did not hear directly from Abu Huraira), but I heard Abdullah b. Ibrahlm b. Qariz; say that' he had heard from Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) had said: Prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers. or. is like one thousand prayers observed in other mosques besides It, except that it be in al-Masjid al-Haram.

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

Prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers (observed in other mosque.) besides it, except that of Masjid al-Haram.