English translation
454. Anas bin Mālik narrated, “The place of (the Prophet’s ﷺ) Masjid was a garden that used to belong to Banū An-Najjār. There was some cultivation (growing) in it, and date-palms, and graves of some idolaters. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: ‘Give me a price that I may purchase it (from you).’ They said: ‘We do not want any money for it.’ So the date-palms were cut down, and the cultivation uprooted, and the graves of the idolaters removed...” and he narrated the remainder of the Hadīth (as no. 453), except that he said (in the poem): “Forgive...” instead of, “Grant your aid...” (Ṣaḥīh) Mūsā (one of the narrators) said: “‘Abdul-Wārīth narrated similar to us, and ‘Abdul-Wārīth used to say: ‘Ruins’, and ‘Abdul-Wārīth claimed that he narrated this Hadīth to Hammād.[1]