Pilgrimage & Hajj

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, “The last hour will not come before Medina drives away its wicked people as the bellows drives away the impurity of iron." Muslim transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

He reported God’s messenger as saying, “There are angels on the mountain roads of Medina, so neither plague nor the dajjal can enter it.” Bukhari and Muslim.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Anas reported God’s messenger as saying, “There is no town on which the dajjal will not tread, with the exception of Mecca and Medina. There is none of its mountain paths which does not have angels in it drawn up...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Sa'd reported God’s messenger as saying, “No one will act deceitfully towards the inhabitants of Medina without being dissolved as salt is dissolved in water.” Bukhari and Muslim.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Anas said that when the Prophet returned from a journey and looked at the walls of Medina he made his camel hasten, and if he was on a horse (Dabba. This word is used for either a horse or a...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

He told of the Prophet coming in sight of Uhud and saying, “This is a mountain which loves us and which we love. O God, Abraham declared Mecca sacred, and I declare the land between its (Medina's) two lava plains...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Sahl b. Sa'd reported God’s messenger as saying, “Uhud is a mountain which loves us and which we love.” Bukhari transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Sulaiman b. Abu ‘Abdallah said he saw Sa'd b. Abu Waqqas seize a man who was hunting in the sacred territory of Medina which God’s messenger had declared to be sacred and take away his clothes from him. His patrons...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Salih, a client of Sa'd, said that Sa'd found some of the slaves of Medina cutting down some of the trees of Medina and took away their equipment. He then said, i.e. to their owners, that he had heard God's...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Az-Zubair reported God’s messenger as saying, “The game and large thorn trees of Wajj are sacred being declared a sacred belonging of God." Abu Dawud transmitted it. Muhyi as-Sunna said Wajj was mentioned by some as being in the neighbourhood...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Ibn ‘Umar reported God’s messenger as saying, “Let him who can die in Medina, for I shall intercede for those who die in it." Ahmad and Tirmidhi transmitted it, the latter saying this is a hasan sahih tradition whose isnad...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Abu Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying, “The last of the towns of Islam to become a ruin will be Medina," Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a hasan gharib tradition.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Medina, al-Bahrain, (In eastern Arabia, on the Persian Gulf)* or Qinnasrin."(In Syria) Tirmidhi transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Abu Bakra reported the Prophet as saying, ‘‘The terror of the antichrist will not enter Medina. That day it will have seven gates with two angels at each gate." Bukhari transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Anas reported the Prophet as saying, “O God, put in Medina twice as much blessing as Thou hast put in Mecca." Bukhari and Muslim.

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

A man of the family of al-Khattab reported the Prophet as saying, "He who purposely comes to visit me will be under my protection on the day of resurrection; he who lives in Medina and endures its difficulty will have...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Yahya b. Sa'id said that God’s messenger was sitting when a grave was being dug in Medina. A man looked down into the grave and said, "What a bad-resting-place for a believer!" God’s messenger thereupon retorted, "What a bad thing...

Mishkat al-Masabih

The Rites of Pilgrimage

Ibn ‘Abbas told that ‘Umar b. al-Khattab said he had heard God’s messenger say when he was in the wadi of al-‘Aqiq, "A visitant from my Lord came to me last night, telling me to pray in this blessed wadi...

Bulugh al-Maram

Hajj

Abu Hurairah (RAA) narrated that the Messenger of Allah said, “The performance of 'Umrah is an expiation for all the sins committed (between this 'Umrah and the previous one), and the reward for Hajj Mabrur (the one accepted by Allah...

Bulugh al-Maram

Hajj

Hajj and 'Umrah." Related by Ahmad and Ibn Majah and the wording is his. It is reported with a sound chain of narrators.