Muwatta' Malik 45-5

Translation

Malik related to me that Yahya ibn Said said, "I heard Abu'l-Hubab Said ibn Yasar say that he heard Abu Hurayra say that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'I was ordered to a town which will eat up towns. They used to say, 'Yathrib,' but it is Madina. It removes the bad people like the blacksmith's furnace removes impurities from the iron.' "

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  هكذا هذا الحديث في الموطأ عند جماعة الرواة

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  in موطأ مالك, p. 1554

Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 1871أُمِرْتُ بِقَرْيَةٍ تَأْكُلُ الْقُرَى يَقُولُونَ يَثْرِبُ وَهْىَ الْمَدِينَةُ تَنْفِي النَّاسَ كَمَا يَنْفِي الْكِيرُ خَبَثَ الْحَدِيدِ
• Misykatul Mashabih 2737وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " أُمِرْتُ بِقَرْيَةٍ تَأْكُلُ الْقُرَى. يَقُولُونَ: يَثْرِبَ وَهِيَ الْمَدِينَةُ تَنْفِي النَّاسَ كَمَا يَنْفِي الْكِيرُ خَبَثَ الْحَدِيدِ "
• Shahih Muslim 1382aأُمِرْتُ بِقَرْيَةٍ تَأْكُلُ الْقُرَى يَقُولُونَ يَثْرِبَ وَهْىَ الْمَدِينَةُ تَنْفِي النَّاسَ كَمَا يَنْفِي الْكِيرُ خَبَثَ الْحَدِيدِ

Other narrations of this report

Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 17240Musnad al-Bazzar 8223al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 11363al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 4250

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   سمعت
2. 2
   Saʿīd b. Yasār mawlá Maymūnah zawj Rasūl Allāh

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin)d. 116 AH or 117 AH, in another manuscript of Ibn Ḥibbān: 120 AH
   أَبَا ج١ / ص١٣٠٦الْحُبَابِ سَعِيدَ بْنَ يَسَارٍثقة متقن
   سمعت
3. 3
   Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 143 AH or 144 AH, also said 146 AH
   يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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