No. 3188

Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: A time will come for the people (of Medina) when a man will invite his cousin and any other near relation: Come (and settle) at (a place) where living is cheap, come to where there is plenty, but Medina will be better for them; would they know it! By Him in Whose Hand is my life, none amongst them would go out (of the city) with a dislike for it, but Allaah would make his successor in it someone better than be. Behold. Medina is like furnace which eliminates from it the impurities. And the Last Hour will not come until Medina banishes its evils just as a furnace eliminates the impurities of iron.

No. 3189

Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported Allaah's Messenger (way sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: I have been commanded (to migrate) to a town (Medina) which would overpower other towns. They (the people) call it Yathrib; its correct name is (in fact) Medina. It eliminates (bad) people just as a furnace removes the alloy of iron.

No. 3190

This hadith has been narrated by Yabya b. Sa'id with the same chain of transmitters (and the words are):" Just as a furance removes impurity," but no mention is made of iron.

No. 3191

Jabir b. Abdullah (Allaah be pleased with them) reported that a desert Arab swore allegiance to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam). He suffered frozn a severe fever in Medina (and) so he came to Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) saying: Mubammad. cancel my oath of allegiance, but Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) refused it. He again came and caid: Cancel my oath of allegiance. but he (the Prophet) refused it. He again came to him and said: Cancel my oath of allegiance, but he refused. The desert Arab, however, went away (cancelling the allegiance himself) ; thereupon Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Medina is like a furnace which drives away its impurity and purifies what is good.

No. 3192

Zaid b. Thabit reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: It is Taiba, thereby meaning Medina. It drives away impurity just as fire removes the impurity of silver.

No. 3193

Jabir b. Samura (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that he heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) say: Allaah named Medina as Tabba.