Migration To Medina Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) Left Makkah And Settled In Medina, which is called the "Migration Of The Prophet".
When He First Called People To One God By Forbidding Idolatry And Polytheism, The People Of Makkah Became Enemies Of Him And Started Harassing Him.
At The Same Time, Many People in Medina Came To Believe In Him And Not Only Confessed Monotheism But Also Promised Him All Kinds Of Help. So The Holy Prophet Gave Permission To The Muslims To Leave Makkah And Go To Medina. Thus, Many Muslims From Mecca Migrated To Medina. This Event Took Place In 622 CE, According To The Thirteenth Year Of Prophet Hood.
When The People Of Makkah Saw That The Muslims Had Taken Refuge In Another City Out Of Their Reach, They Considered It A Great Danger For The Future And Conspired To End This Daily Quarrel That The Prophet Himself (Nauzubillah) Should Be Eliminated.
So They Laid Siege To
His House And Waited For Him To Come Out. When He Came To Know About This Plot
Of His Enemies, He Also Decided To Go To Medina, So He Instructed Hazrat Ali To
Sleep On His Bed And Return The Trusts That The Infidels Had Kept With Him On
The Next Day.
They Should Also Go To
Medina From Makkah. He Left With Hazrat Abu Bakar, And After Staying In The
Cave Of Thor (غار ثور) For Three Days, On
September 20, 622 CE, According To 8 Rabi Al-Awwal 1 AH, He Reached The Place
Of Quba, Which Was A Settlement At A Distance Of Three Miles From Medina. It
Was Here That Hazrat Ali Also Came To Him. Here He Stayed For Four Days And
Laid The Foundation Of The World's First Mosque, Masjid Quba. After Staying In
Quba For Four Days, After That Left It For Medina.
Is Yathrib and Medina the same place?
Yathrab Was The OldName Of Medina. When Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) Migrated From Makkah To Yathrib, It Was Named Medina-Ul-Nabi, Which Is Now Called Medina For Short.
The Cause Of Yathrib:
Three Popular Causes
Are Listed.
1) Medina Has More
Than A Hundred Names Before Migration; People Used To Call It Yathrib Either
Because The First Person From The (Amaleka) Tribe Who Came Here Was Named
Yathrib Bin Qaniyyah, Who Was In The Seventh Generation Of The Descendants Of
Noah (Peace Be Upon Him). (Yathrib Ibn Qayynah Ibn Mahlail Ibn Iram Ibn Abeel
Ibn Awad Ibn Iram Ibn Sam Ibn Nuh) Therefore, Naming This Holy City After An
Infidel Is Against honour.
2) Or This Word Is
Derived From ثرب Meaning Reprimand,
Punishment, Trouble,
3) Or Yathreeb, Which
Means rebuke And punishment.
Prohibition Of Saying Yathrib:
In The Holy Qur'an,
What Was Called Yathrib Is The Saying Of The Hypocrites.
And Imam Ahmad Says That Whoever Calls Medina Munawarah Yathrib Should Repent, Bukhari Said In His History That Whoever Calls It Yathrib Once Should Call It Medina Ten Times As An Atonement.
Imam Ahmad And Abu
Ya'ali Have Narrated That If A Person Calls Medina Yathrib, He Should Seek
Forgiveness .
Virtues Of Al-Medina:
1) It Was Narrated From
Hazrat Abu Huraira That When People Saw A New Fruit On A Tree, They Would Bring
It And Present It To The Messenger Of Allah, Peace Be Upon Him, And He Would
Accept It And Pray Like This: Allah! Bless Our Fruits And Production, And Bless
Our City Medina, And Bless Our Saa'a And Mada, O Allah! Ibarhim Was Your
Special servant, your Khalil, And Your prophet, And I Am Also Your Servant And
Your Prophet. They Prayed To You For Makkah, And I Pray To You For Medina As
Well, And So Much More, Then You (PBUH) Would Call A Small Child And Give Him A
New Fruit." (Sahih Muslim)
The Meaning Of
Blessing In Fruits And Production Is Obviously That There Is Maximum Production
And The Harvest Is Abundant, And Blessing In The City Of Medina Means That It
Is Well-Populated And The Grace Of Allah Is Upon Its Inhabitants, And There Are
Saa And Mad Scales.
In This Era, The
Buying And Selling Of Grain, Etc. Was Done By These Measures, Barkat In Them
Means That One Saa Is Sufficient For More Days Than The Number Of Men Or The
Number Of Days.
In The Holy Qur'an,
There Is A Mention Of The Prayer Of Hazrat Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him) To
Allah, Which He Prayed To Allah For His Wife And Child By Settling Them In The
Uninhabited And Waterless Deserts Of Makkah. O Allah! So Put Love In The Hearts
Of Your Servants, provide them with sustenance and fruits, Etc., And Grant Them
Peace And Security Here.
The Messenger Of
Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant Him Peace, Used To Mention This Ibrahimi Supplication As An Example, And Used To Make The Same Supplication To Allah For
Medina, But With More Additions. The Fruit Of This Supplication Is Also Evident
That The Believers All Over The World Who Love Makkah Also Love Medina, And Its
Share In This Popularity Is Definitely More Than Makkah.
2) There Is A Hadith On The Authority Of Hazrat Abu Huraira That The Messenger Of Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant Him Peace, Said That The Day Of Judgement Will Not Come Until Medina Casts Out Its Corrupt And Corrupted Elements In The Same Way That A Blacksmith's Furnace Casts Out Iron. (Sahih Muslim)
That Is, Before The
Day Of Judgement, The Population Of Medina Will Be Cleansed Of Such Bad
Elements That Are Dirty In Terms Of Beliefs, Thoughts, Actions And Morals.
3) It Is Narrated From
Hazrat Abu Hurairah That The Messenger Of Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant
Him Peace, Said That Angels Are Appointed On The Roads Of Medina, And The
Plague And Dajjal Cannot Enter It. (Sahih Bukhari And Sahih Muslim)
In Some Other Hadiths
Of Sahihin, It Is Among The Blessings Of Medina That Allah's Khalil Syedna
Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him) And His Beloved Hazrat Muhammad (Peace And
Blessings Of Allah Be Upon Him) Did For These Two Holy And Blessed Cities.
4) It Was Narrated From Hazrat Abdullah Bin Umar That The Messenger Of Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant Him Peace, Said, "Whoever Tries It And Dies In Medina, Then He Should Try It And Die In Medina." I Will Certainly Intercede For Those Who Will Die In Medina. and Will Be Buried there. (Musnad Ahmad, Jami Tirmidhi)
It Is Obvious That It
Is Not In Anyone's Power That Death Will Come To Such And Such A Place, But A
Person Can Wish For It And Pray For It And Can Even Try For It To Some Extent.
For Example, if One goes to die wherever he wants, If The Decision Of Fate And
Fate Is Not Against It, Then Death Will Come There. Let Him try; Allah Helps
Those Who Try With Sincerity.
5) It Is Narrated On The Authority Of Yahya Bin Saeed Al-Ansari At Tabi That The Messenger Of Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant Him Peace, Was Visiting The Cemetery Of Medina And The Grave Of A Dead Person Was Being Dug. So This Is Not A Good Resting Place. The Messenger Of Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant Him Peace, said, This Is A Very Bad Thing That Came Out Of Your Tongue.
(That A Muslim Was Blessed With Death And Grave In Medina, And You Say That This Resting Place Is Not Good For A Muslim.) He Said As An Apology: Holy Prophet (Peace And Blessings Of Allah Be Upon Him), I Did Not Mean (That Death And The Grave Are Not Good In Medina), But My Aim Was Martyrdom In The Way Of God (That Is, I Wanted To Say That This Death If The Brothers Had Been Martyred In A Field Of Jihad Instead Of Dying In Bed And Being Buried In A Grave, And His Body Had Died There In Dust And Blood, It Would Have Been Better Than Being Buried In This Grave. It Is Not Equal To Those Who Were Martyred In God (That Is, The Place Of Martyrdom Is Indeed Very High, But Dying In Medina And Being Buried In Its Dust Is Also A Great Blessing). Be Loved More Than Medina. He Said This Three Times. (Muta Imam Malik)
Imam Bukhari, In His
Jama Sahih Bukhari, At The Very End Of The Book Of Hajj, After Mentioning The
Hadiths Of The Chain Of Virtues Of Medina Tayyaba, Ended This Statement With
The Famous Prayer Of Ameerul Mu'minin, Hazrat Umar Bin Al Khattab, Who Said:
Translation: O Allah!
Give Me Martyrdom In Your Way And Grant Me The Blessing To Die And Be Buried In
The Holy City Of My Beloved Messenger Of Allah, May God Bless Him And Grant Him
Peace."
The Incident Of This
Supplication Has Been Narrated By Ibn Saad With A Valid Chain Of Transmission
That Auf Bin Malik Ashjajai Saw In A Dream That Hazrat Umar Had Been Martyred.
He Narrated This Dream To Hazrat Umar.
Translation: "How
Can I Be Blessed With Martyrdom In The Cause Of Allah When I Am Living In The
Middle Of Jazirat Al-Arab (And It Has Become Dar Al-Islam) And I Do Not Wage
Jihad Myself And The Servants Of Allah Are Always Around Me?" "
Then He Himself Said:
"Why Can't I Be Blessed With Martyrdom? If Allah Wills, He Will Bless Me
With Martyrdom In These Circumstances."
After that, He Prayed
What Is Recorded Above.
After Hearing This
Prayer From His Mouth, Hazrat Hafsa, The Daughter Of Umm Al-Mu'minin, Said:
"How Can It Be That You Are A Martyr In The Way Of God And Die In Medina?"
He said, "If Allah Wills, These Two Things Will Happen."
In The Traditions Of
This Chain, It Is Also Said That Everyone Was Surprised To Hear This Prayer Of
Hazrat Omar And Did Not Understand How These Two Things Could Happen. When Abul
Lulu Injured You In The Mihrab Of The Prophet's Mosque, everyone understood
that the acceptance of the prayer was destiny in the same way.
We pray to Allah that He will grant us a polite visit to Madinah and give us the opportunity to understand the religion of Islam. Amen.
Author: Muhammad Raza Qureshi
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