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210 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD "'I exclaimed, "By God, he doesn't know what he is saying!" Bila was in the habit of resting in the courtyard of the house whenever the fever struck him, then he would raise his voice and say, "0 how happy I would be to spend a night in Fakh, while all around me was fresh grass and verdure. Will I ever again descend to Majima's waters, or see Shw and Tufayl?"' "'A'isha went on, 'I told the Messenger of God (SAAS) what I had heard from them, saying, "They are raving, irrational from the intensity of the fever." He replied, "0 God, make Medina beloved by us as Mecca is, and more so; make it healthy and bless us in its prosperity. Turn aside its fever to Mahya'a!" Mahya'a is a reference to al-Juhfa."' Im%m Ahad stated, "Yiinus related to us, quoting Layth, from Yazid b. Abti Habib, from Abii Bakr b. Ishzq b. Yasar, from 'Abd All& b.Wrwa, from 'Unva, from 'A'isha, who said, 'When the Messenger of God (SAAS) arrived in Medina, Abii Bakr and 'Amir b. Fuhayra, Abii Bakr's freed-man, and Bilal, fell sick.' 'A'isha asked permission from the Messenger of God (SAAS) to visit them, and he agreed. She then asked Abii Bakr, 'How are you?' "He replied, 'Any man might arise among his family, yet his death be closer than his sandal thongs!' "She then asked 'Amir and he replied, 'I have found death before tasting it; a coward has his demise right above him.' "Then she asked Bilal and he said, '0 how happy I would be to spend a night in Fakh, while all around me was fresh grass and verdure.' "So she went to the Messenger of God (SAAS) and told him. He then looked up to heaven and said, '0 God, make Medina beloved by us as Mecca is, and more so; make it healthy and bless us in its foods. Tum aside its fever to Mahya'a.' This is a reference to al-Juhfa, so they claim." Al-Nasa'i related this similarly from Qutayba, from al-Layth. The Imim Ahmad related it through 'Abd al-Ra!nnZn b. al-HBith from her as above. Al-Bayhaqi stated, "The ha&. Abii (Abd Allzh related to us, quoting Abii Sa'id b. Abii 'Amr, both saying, 'Abii al-'Abbas al-Asamm related to us, quoting Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Jabbar and Yiinus b. Bukayr, from Hishim b. 'Urwa, from his father, from 'A'isha, who said, "The Messenger of God (SAAS) came to Medina and it was the most pestilential place on God's earth. It was just two basinshaped valleys wet with najl, brackish water.""' Hishw stated, "Its pestilential nature was well known before Islam. When the valley was disease-ridden and a man were to arrive there, he would be told to neigh like a donkey; if he did this the valley's pestilence would not harm him. A
IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' ISMA'IL IBN KATH~R 211 poet once said, coming to Medina, "By my life, if I, fearing death, were to emit a donkey's neighing, I would be expressing my anxiety." Al-Buhhitri related from a hadith of Moss b.cUqba, from Sdim, from his father, that the Prophet (SAAS) said, "I saw what seemed lie a black woman, her head in disarray, emerge from Medina and travel to Mahya'a, which is al-Juhfa. I interpreted from this that Medina's pestilence had been transformed to Mahya'a, that is, to al-Juhfa." This wording is from al-Bukhiiri. Muslim did not give this tradition. Al- Tirmidhl did relate it and pronounced it authentic, while al-Nass'i and Ihn Mzja gave it from a hadith of Miisn b. Wqba. Hammzd b. Zayd related, from Hishh h. Wrwa, from 'A'isha, who said, "When the Messenger of God (SAAS) arrived at Medina the pestilence was active." She related the tradition in full as above but gave the final words of the Messenger of God as "remove its fever to al-Juhfa!" Hishb stated, "A child born in al-Juhfa never reached adolescence without being struck down by the fever." Al-Bayhaqi related this in the Dalsil al-Nubuwwah (Signs of the Prophethood). Yonus stated, from Ibn Ishnq, "When the Messenger of God (SAAS) arrived in Medina, the pestilence was active. MI his Companions became seriously stricken with that. But God kept it away from his Prophet (SAAS)." It is established in both sahih collections, from Ibn 'Abb~, who said, "The Messenger of God (SAAS) and his Companions arrived in Mecca flushed and feverish in the year they made the 'umrat al-qa&i':5 the 'fulfilment pilgrimage', and the polytheists said, 'There's a group of them arriving who are weakened by the Medina fever.' And so the Messenger of God (SAAS) ordered his Companions to jog around the ka'ba except between the two corners where they were permitted to walk. And it was only his concern for them that deterred him from making them jog throughout the performance of the ritual." I observe that the 'umrat al-qa&' took place in the year 7 AH, in the month of Dba al-Qa'da. Either his prayer to God to remove the pestilence elsewhere had been delayed to some time close to this, or that it had been removed but some few traces of it had remained. Or they were still suffering from some remaining effects of a previous afniction. But God knows best. Ziy?id stated, quoting Ibn Isbq, "Ibn Shihzb al-Zuhri related from 'Abd All& b. 'Amr b. al-'&, that when the Messenger of God (SAAS) and his Companions arrived in Medina they became seriously ill from the Medina fever, to the extent that they had to say their prayers seated. However, God kept this affliction from affecting His Prophet (SAAS)." The account states, "And so the Messenger of God (SAAS) went out before them while they were praying in this way and told them, 'You should know that 45. The name given to the 'umra pilgrimage rites the Muslims performed then at Meua which had been vacated by its inhabitants by prior agreement for this occasion. The circumstances of this will be detailed by Ibn Kathlr later in this text.
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CONTENTS Foreword About this Series
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CONTENTS vii Chapter: On the birth
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ABOUT THIS SERIES THIS series of Ar
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