حَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ
" لاَ تَحِلُّ الصَّدَقَةُ لآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ إِنَّمَا هِيَ أَوْسَاخُ النَّاسِ " .
Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Sadaqa to
the family of Muhammad is not halal. It is only people's impurities."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr from
his father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant
him peace, gave a man from the Banu Abd al-Ashal charge over some
sadaqa. When he came to ask him for some camels from the sadaqa, the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was so
angry that the anger showed in his face. One way in which anger could
be recognised in his face was that his eyes became red. Then he said,
"This man has asked me for what is not good for me or him. If I refuse
it, I hate to refuse. If I give it to him, I will give him what is not
good for me or him." The man said, "Messenger of Allah! I will never
ask you for any of it!"
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that his
father said, "Abdullah ibn al-Arqam said, 'Show me a riding-camel
which the amir al-muminim can give me to use.' I said, 'Yes. One of
the sadaqa camels.' Abdullah ibn al-Arqam said, 'Would you want a
stout man on a hot day to wash for you what is under his lower garment
and its folds, and then give it to you to drink?' I was angry and
said, 'May Allah forgive you! Why do you say such things to me?'
Abdullah ibn al-Arqam said, 'Sadaqa is the impurities of people which
they wash off themselves.' "
Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard that Luqman al-Hakim
made his will and counselled his son, saying, "My son! Sit with the
learned men and keep close to them. Allah gives life to the hearts
with the light of wisdom as Allah gives life to the dead earth with
the abundant rain of the sky."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from his
father that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave a mawla of his called Hunayy
charge over the hima. He said, "Hunayy! Do not harm the people. Fear
the supplication of the wronged, for the supplication of the wronged
is answered. Let the one with a small herd of camels and the one with
a small herd of sheep enter, but be wary of the livestock of Ibn Awf
and the livestock of Ibn Affan. If their livestock are destroyed, they
will return to palm-trees and agriculture. If the livestock of the one
with a small herd of camels and the one with a small herd of sheep are
destroyed, he will bring his children to me crying, 'Amir al-muminin!
Amir al-Muminin!' Shall I neglect them? Water and pasturage are of
less value to me than gold and silver. By Allah, they think that I
have wronged them. This is their land and their water. They fought for
it in the jahiliyya and became muslims on it in Islam. By He in whose
hand my self is! Were it not for the mounts which I give to be ridden
in the way of Allah, I would not have turned a span of their land into
hima."
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Muhammad ibn Jubayr ibn
Mutim that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
"I have five names. I am Muhammad. I am Ahmad. I am al-Mahi (the
effacer), by whom Allah effaces kufr. I am al-Hashir (the gatherer),
before whom people are gathered. I am al-Aqib (the last)."
Yahya ibn Yahya related to me from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi
Talha al-Ansari from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "O Allah! Bless them in
their measure, and bless them in their sa and mudd." He meant the
people of Madina.
Yahya related to me from Malik from Suhayl ibn Abi Salih from his
father that Abu Hurayra said, "When people saw the first fruits of the
season, they brought them to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, took them and said, 'O Allah! Bless us in our
fruits. Bless us in our city. Bless us in our sa and bless us in our
mudd. O Allah! Ibrahim is Your slave, Your Khalil and Your Prophet. I
am Your slave and Your Prophet. He prayed to You for Makka. I pray to
You for Madina for the like of what He prayed to You for Makka, and
the like of it with it.' Then he called the smallest child he saw and
gave him the fruits."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Qatan ibn Wahb ibn Umayr ibn
al-Ajda that Yuhannas, the mawla of az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam informed
him that he was sitting with Abdullah ibn Umar during the troubles (at
the time of al-Hajaj ibn Yusuf) . A female mawla of his came and
greeted him. She said, "I want to leave, Abu Abd ar-Rahman. The time
is harsh for us." Abdullah ibn Umar said to her, "Sit down, O you with
little knowledge, for I have heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, say, 'No one will be patient in hunger
and hardship in it (Madina) except that I will be a witness or
intercede for him on the Day of Rising.' "
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 45, Hadith 3
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وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، أَنَّ أَعْرَابِيًّا، بَايَعَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَلَى الإِسْلاَمِ فَأَصَابَ الأَعْرَابِيَّ وَعْكٌ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَأَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَقِلْنِي بَيْعَتِي . فَأَبَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ثُمَّ جَاءَهُ فَقَالَ أَقِلْنِي بَيْعَتِي . فَأَبَى ثُمَّ جَاءَهُ فَقَالَ أَقِلْنِي بَيْعَتِي . فَأَبَى فَخَرَجَ الأَعْرَابِيُّ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم
" إِنَّمَا الْمَدِينَةُ كَالْكِيرِ تَنْفِي خَبَثَهَا وَيَنْصَعُ طِيبُهَا " .
Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir from
Jabir ibn Abdullah that a Bedouin took an oath of allegiance in Islam
with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
A fever befell the Bedouin at Madina. He came to the Messenger of
Allah, and said, "Messenger of Allah, release me from my pledge." The
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, refused.
Then he came to him again and said, "Release me from my pledge." The
Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace, refused.
Then he came again and said, "Release me from my pledge." He refused.
Then he came again and said, "Release me from my pledge." He refused.
The Bedouin left and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, said, "Madina is like the blacksmith's furnace. It
removes the impurities and purifies the good."
Malik related to me that Yahya ibn Said said, "I heard
Abu'l-Hubab Said ibn Yasar say that he heard Abu Hurayra say that he
heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
say, 'I was ordered to a town which will eat up towns. They used to
say, 'Yathrib,' but it is Madina. It removes the bad people like the
blacksmith's furnace removes impurities from the iron.' "
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 45, Hadith 5
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وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ
" لاَ يَخْرُجُ أَحَدٌ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ رَغْبَةً عَنْهَا إِلاَّ أَبْدَلَهَا اللَّهُ خَيْرًا مِنْهُ " .
Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "No
one leaves Madina preferring to live elsewhere, but that Allah will
give it better than him in place of him ."
Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father from
Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr that Sufyan ibn Abi Zuhayr said, "I heard the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say,
'Yemen will be conquered and the people will be attracted to it,
taking their families and whoever obeys them. Madina would have been
better for them, had they but known. Ash-Sham will be conquered and
people will be attracted to it, taking their families and whoever
obeys them. Madina would have been better for them, had they but
known. Iraq will be conquered and people will be attracted to it,
taking their families and whoever obeys them. Madina would have been
better for them, had they but known.' "
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Himas from his paternal
uncle from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless
him and grant him peace, said, "Madina will be left in the best way
that it is until a dog or wolf enters it and urinates on one of the
pillars of the mosque or on the mimbar." They asked, "Messenger of
Allah! Who will have the fruit at that time?" He replied, "Animals
seeking food, birds and wild beasts."
Malik related to me that he had heard that when Umar ibn Abd al-
Aziz left Madina, he turned towards it and wept. Then he said, "O
Muzahim! Do you fear that we might be among those that Madina casts
off?"
Yahya related to me from Malik from Amr, the mawla of al-Muttalib
from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, saw Uhud and said, "This is a mountain which
loves us and we love it. O Allah! Ibrahim made Makka Haram, and I will
make what is between the two tracts of black stones (in Madina) a
Haram."
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 45, Hadith 10
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وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ لَوْ رَأَيْتُ الظِّبَاءَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ تَرْتَعُ مَا ذَعَرْتُهَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم
" مَا بَيْنَ لاَبَتَيْهَا حَرَامٌ " .
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al-Musayyab
that Abu Hurayra said, "Had I seen a gazelle at Madina, I would have
left it to graze and would not have frightened it. The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'What is between
the two tracts of black stones is a Haram.' "
Malik related to me from Yunus ibn Yusuf from Ata ibn Yasar that
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari found some boys who had driven a fox into a
corner, and he chased them away from it.
Malik said, "I only
know that he said, 'Is this done in the Haram of the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace?' "
Yahya related to me from Malik from a man who said, "Zayd ibn
Thabit came across me while I was at al-Aswaf (on the outskirts of
Madina). I had captured a hawk. He took it from my hands and set it
free."
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his
father that A'isha, umm al-muminin said, "When the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to Madina, Abu Bakr and
Bilal came down with a fever. I visited them and said, 'Father, how
are you? Bilal, how are you?'" She continued, "When Abu Bakr's fever
worsened he would say, 'Every man is struck down among his people in
the morning - death is nearer than the strap of his sandal.'"
When it left Bilal, he raised his voice and said, 'Would that I knew
whether I will spend a night at the valley of Makka with the idhkhir
herb and jalil herb around me. Will I go one day to the waters of
Majinna? Will the mountains of Shama and Tafil appear to me?' " '
A'isha continued, "I went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, and informed him. He said, 'O Allah!
Make us love Madina as much as we love Makka or even more. Make it
sound and bless us in our sa and mudd. Remove its fever and put it in
al-Juhfa.' "
Malik said that Yahya ibn Said had related to him that A'isha
said that Amir ibn Fuhayra had said at the time of the epidemic, "I
have seen death before tasting it, the coward's destination is from
above him."
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 45, Hadith 15
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُجْمِرِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " عَلَى أَنْقَابِ الْمَدِينَةِ مَلاَئِكَةٌ لاَ يَدْخُلُهَا الطَّاعُونُ وَلاَ الدَّجَّالُ
Yahya related to me from Malik from Nuaym ibn Abdullah al-Mujmir
that Abu Hurayra said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him
and grant him peace, said, 'There are angels at the entries of Madina,
and neither plague nor the Dajjal will enter it.' "
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ismail ibn Abi Hakim that he
heard Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz say, "One of the last things that the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said was,
'May Allah fight the jews and the christians. They took the graves of
their Prophets as places of prostration . Two deens shall not co-exist
in the land of the Arabs.' "
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two deens
shall not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula."
Malik said that
Ibn Shihab said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab searched for information about
that until he was absolutely convinced that the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had said, 'Two deens shall
not co-exist in the Arabian Peninsula,' and he therefore expelled the
jews from Khaybar."
Malik said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab expelled the jews from Najran
(a jewish settlement in the Yemen) and Fadak (a jewish settlement
thirty miles from Madina). When the jews of Khaybar left, they did not
take any fruit or land. The jews of Fadak took half the fruit and half
the land, because the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, had made a settlement with them for that. So Umar
entrusted to them the value in gold, silver, camels, ropes and saddle
bags of half the fruit and half the land, and handed the value over to
them and expelled them."
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 45, Hadith 18
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وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم طَلَعَ لَهُ أُحُدٌ فَقَالَ
" هَذَا جَبَلٌ يُحِبُّنَا وَنُحِبُّهُ " .
Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his
father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, came in view of Uhud and said, "This is a mountain which loves
us and we love it."