English translation
رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا 3926. Narrated 'Āishah: When Allāh's Messenger ﷺ came to Al-Madīna, Abū Bakr and Bilāl got fever, and I went to both of them and said, "O my father, how do you feel? O Bilāl, how do you feel?" Whenever Abū Bakr's fever got worse, he would say, "Everybody is staying alive among his people yet death is nearer to him than his shoe-laces." And whenever fever deserted Bilāl, he would say aloud, "Would that I could stay overnight in a valley, wherein I would be surrounded by Idhkhīr and Jalīl (i.e., two kinds of good smelling grass), would that I could drink one day the water of Mijannah, and would that Shāmah and Taṣīl (two mountains at Makkah) would appear to me?" Then I went to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and told him of that. He said, "O Allāh, make us love Al-Madīna as much as or more than we used to love Makkah, O Allāh, make
it healthy and bless its Sā' and Mudd (i.e., measures), and take away its fever to Al-Juhfa.”(1)
Arabic text
3926 - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ، أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا، أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: لَمَّا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ المَدِينَةَ، وُعِكَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ، وَبِلاَلٌ، قَالَتْ: فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَيْهِمَا، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَبَتِ كَيْفَ تَجِدُكَ؟ وَيَا بِلاَلُ كَيْفَ تَجِدُكَ؟ قَالَتْ: فَكَانَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِذَا أَخَذَتْهُ الحُمَّى يَقُولُ:
كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مُصَبَّحٌ فِي أَهْلِهِ ... وَالمَوْتُ أَدْنَى مِنْ شِرَاكِ نَعْلِهِ
وَكَانَ بِلاَلٌ إِذَا أَقْلَعَ عَنْهُ الحُمَّى يَرْفَعُ عَقِيرَتَهُ وَيَقُولُ:
أَلاَ لَيْتَ شِعْرِي هَلْ أَبِيتَنَّ لَيْلَةً ... بِوَادٍ وَحَوْلِي إِذْخِرٌ وَجَلِيلُ
وَهَلْ أَرِدَنْ يَوْمًا مِيَاهَ مَجَنَّةٍ ... وَهَلْ يَبْدُوَنْ لِي شَامَةٌ وَطَفِيلُ
قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ: فَجِئْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ فَقَالَ: «اللَّهُمَّ حَبِّبْ إِلَيْنَا المَدِينَةَ كَحُبِّنَا مَكَّةَ، أَوْ أَشَدَّ وَصَحِّحْهَا وَبَارِكْ لَنَا فِي صَاعِهَا وَمُدِّهَا، وَانْقُلْ حُمَّاهَا فَاجْعَلْهَا بِالْجُحْفَةِ»
