Volume 7, Book 70, Number 581:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
When Allah’s Apostle 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 Apostle 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 558) .
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 7 > BOOK 71: MEDICINE
Book 71: Medicine