Sahih al-Bukhari 5677

Hadith text

Narrated `Aisha:When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) emigrated to Medina, Abu Bakr and Bilal had a fever. I entered upon them and said, "O my father! How are you? O Bilal! How are you?" Whenever Abu Bakr got the fever he used to say, "Everybody is staying alive with his people, yet death is nearer to him than his shoe laces." And when fever deserted Bilal, he would recite (two poetic verses): "Would that I could stay overnight in a valley wherein I would be surrounded by Idhkhir and Jalil (two kinds of good smelling grass). Would that one day I could drink of the water of Majinna, and would that Shama and Tafil (two mountains at Mecca) would appear to me!" I went to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and informed him about that. He said, "O Allah! Make us love Medina as much or more than we love Mecca, and make it healthy, and bless its Sa and its Mudd, and take away its fever and put it in Al-Juhfa." (See Hadith No)

Aisha bataati hain: Jab Allah ke Rasool (SAW) Madina hijrat kar gaye, Abu Bakr aur Bilal ko bukhaar chad gaya. Main unke paas gayi aur kaha, 'Aye mere waalid! Aap kaise hain? Aye Bilal! Aap kaise hain?' Jab bhi Abu Bakr ko bukhaar chadta, wo kehte, 'Har koi apni qaum mein zinda rehta hai, phir bhi maut uski jooti ke fite se bhi zyaada qareeb hai.' Aur jab Bilal ka bukhaar utarta, wo ye do sher padhte: 'Kaash main kisi wadi mein raat guzaar sakoon jahaan mere aas-paas Idhkhir aur Jalil hon. Kaash ek din main Majinna ka paani pee sakoon, aur kaash Shama aur Tafil mujhe dikhaayi de jaayein!' Main Allah ke Rasool (SAW) ke paas gayi aur unhein ye baat bataayi. Unhone farmaya, 'Aye Allah! Humein Madina se utni ya usse zyaada mohabbat karwaa jitni humein Makkah se hai, aur ise sehatmand bana de, aur iske Sa aur Mudd mein barkat de, aur iska bukhaar door karke Al-Juhfa mein bhej de.'

Sahih al-Bukhari 5677 · Book 75, Hadith 37