As previously mentioned, according to the narration of al-Bukhārī through al-Zuhrī from ʿUrwa, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered Medina at noon.
I say: Perhaps he entered after the time of zawāl (the sun’s zenith). For, according to an authentic hadith established in the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim regarding the Hijra, Abū Bakr said:
"We arrived in Medina at night. The people competed with one another to host the Prophet. The Prophet said to them:
'I will stay with the Banū Najjār, the maternal uncles of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, and thus honor them.'
I think that the Prophet, upon arriving near Medina on the day he reached Qubāʾ, arrived during the midday heat, rested under one of the palm trees, and then, together with the Muslims, came to Qubāʾ at night and stayed there. The above statement about 'after zawāl' refers to the night. Most likely, after leaving Qubāʾ, he reached the territory of the Banū Najjār in the evening. This will be clarified further below. Allah knows best.
According to al-Bukhārī’s narration from ʿUrwa, the Prophet stayed as a guest in the territory of Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf in Qubāʾ, residing there for more than ten nights, during which he established the mosque of Qubāʾ. Afterwards, he set out with the people and entered Medina, where his mount knelt at the site of what is today the Prophet’s Mosque (al-Masjid al-Nabawī). That place belonged to two orphan boys named Sahl and Suhayl, and was used for drying and threshing dates. He purchased the land from them and made it a mosque. The land was in the area of the Banū Najjār tribe.
Muḥammad b. Isḥāq narrates from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUwaym b. Sāʿida: Some men from my tribe, who were among the Companions (ṣaḥāba) of the Messenger of God, told me: "When we heard of the Messenger of God’s departure from Mecca and were awaiting his arrival, after performing the morning prayer, we would go outside the city to watch for him. By Allah, we would wait until the sun became unbearable. When we could find no shade, we would return home. These were hot days. Finally, on the day the Messenger of God arrived, we waited as usual. When there was no shade left, we went inside. The Messenger of God arrived just as we had entered our homes. The first to see him was a Jewish man, who had noticed that we were awaiting the Messenger of God. He shouted in his loudest voice:
– O sons of Qayla! Your ancestor has arrived!
We rushed out to greet the Messenger of God. He was under the shade of a palm tree, accompanied by Abū Bakr. They were of similar age. Most of us had not seen the Messenger of God before. The people surrounded him, unable to distinguish him from Abū Bakr. When the shade moved away from the Messenger of God, Abū Bakr stood up and shaded him with his cloak. It was then that we recognized the Messenger of God."
Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrates from Anas b. Mālik:
"I was playing among the children.
– 'Muḥammad has come,' they were saying. I kept playing, but saw no one.
Again:
– 'Muḥammad has come,' they said. I ran, but saw no one.
Finally, he and his companion Abū Bakr arrived. We hid among the ruined houses of Medina. Then someone was sent to inform the people of Medina of their arrival. About 500 people came out to greet them with great respect and affection, bringing them into Medina. As the Prophet and his companion entered Medina amid the large crowd, all the people came out of their houses. Even the young women climbed onto the rooftops, asking each other:
– Which one is he? Which one is he?
We had never seen a scene as magnificent as that day."
Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) says:
"I witnessed both the day the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) entered Medina and the day he passed away. I have never seen days like those two."
In the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, regarding the hadith of the Hijra, it is narrated that Abū Bakr said:
"When we arrived in Medina, people climbed onto the roads and rooftops. The children and slaves were proclaiming the takbīr, saying:
'The Messenger of God has come! Muḥammad has come! Muḥammad has come! The Messenger of God has come!'
In the morning, he continued on his way and went to the place he was commanded to go."
Al-Bayhaqī narrates from Ibn ʿĀʾisha: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Medina, the women and children expressed their joy by reciting these verses:
"The full moon has risen over us from the direction of Thaniyyat al-Wadāʿ. As long as there is a caller to Allah among us, it is incumbent upon us to show gratitude."
Muḥammad b. Isḥāq said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived at Qubāʾ, he stayed with Kulthūm b. Hidm. He also visited Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, who were from the Banū ʿUbayd tribe. Some say he stayed with Saʿd b. Khaythama. Those who say he stayed with Kulthūm b. Hidm report: "When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) left the house of Kulthūm b. Hidm, he went to the house of Saʿd b. Khaythama to meet with people more comfortably, as Saʿd was a bachelor and his house was empty. It became the house for the single Emigrants (Muhājirūn) among the Prophet’s Companions. Hence, it is said he stayed with Saʿd b. Khaythama. His house was called the house of bachelors."
Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq also stayed with Ḥubayb b. Isāf, who was from the Banū Ḥāris b. Khazraj tribe and lived in Sunḥ. Some say Abū Bakr stayed with Ḥārija b. Zayd b. Abī Zuhayr, the brother of Banū Ḥāris b. Khazraj.
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib stayed in Mecca for three days and nights, returning the trusts that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) had left with him to their owners. When he finished, he set out and joined the Messenger of God, staying with him at the house of Kulthūm b. Hidm. ʿAlī’s stay in Qubāʾ was only one or two nights. He said:
"There was a Muslim woman in Qubāʾ who had no husband. In the middle of the night, a man would come to her house, knock on her door, and she would go out to him. He would give her something, and she would take it. Suspicious, I asked her: 'O servant of Allah! Who is this man who comes to your door every night, to whom you go out and who gives you something? You are a Muslim woman and have no husband.'
She replied:
'This is Sahl b. Ḥunayf. He learned that I am a lonely woman. In the evening, he goes to his people’s idols, breaks them, brings them to me, and says: "Burn these for firewood."'
When Sahl b. Ḥunayf died in Iraq in the presence of ʿAlī, he recounted this story and Sahl’s deeds to the people."
Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in the territory of Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf in Qubāʾ on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and established his mosque there. Then Allah caused him to depart from among them on Friday. According to the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, the Messenger of God stayed among them for a longer period.
ʿAbdullāh b. Idrīs narrates from Muḥammad b. Isḥāq: According to the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, the Messenger of God stayed among them for eighteen nights.
I say: According to al-Bukhārī’s narration from ʿUrwa, the Messenger of God stayed among them for more than ten nights.
Mūsā b. ʿUqba narrates from Mujmaʿ b. Yazīd b. Ḥāritha: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed with us, that is, among the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, for twenty-two nights.
Al-Wāqidī said: The Messenger of God stayed among them for fourteen nights.
Ibn Isḥāq said: "While the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was among the Banū Sālim b. ʿAwf, Friday arrived. He performed the first Friday prayer in the valley of Rānūna. This was the first Friday prayer he performed in Medina.
Then ʿUtba b. Mālik and ʿAbbās b. ʿUbāda b. Naḍla, along with some men from the Banū Sālim b. ʿAwf, came to him and said:
– O Messenger of God, stay with us because of our numbers, our preparedness, and our strength and protection.
The Messenger of God said:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded.
They made way for the camel, and it went on. When it reached the house of Banū Bayāḍa, Ziyād b. Labīd and Farwa b. ʿAmr, with some men from Banū Bayāḍa, came to greet him and said:
– O Messenger of God! Come to us; we have numbers, preparedness, and strength.
The Messenger of God said:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded.
They made way, and the camel went on. When it reached the house of Banū Sāʿida, Saʿd b. ʿUbāda and Mundhir b. ʿAmr, with some men from Banū Sāʿida, came out and said:
– O Messenger of God! Come to us; we have numbers, preparedness, and strength.
The Messenger of God said:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded.
They made way, and the camel went on. When it reached the house of Banū Ḥāritha b. Khazraj, Saʿd b. Rabīʿ, Ḥārija b. Zayd b. ʿAbdullāh b. Rawāḥa, and some men from Banū Ḥāritha b. Khazraj came out and said:
– O Messenger of God! Come to us; we have numbers, preparedness, security, and strength.
The Messenger of God said:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded.
They made way, and the camel went on. When it passed by the house of Banū ʿAdī b. Najjār—who were his close maternal relatives, as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib’s mother Salmā bint ʿAmr was from them—Ṣalīt b. Qays and Abū Ṣalīt b. Usayra b. Abī Ḥārija, with some men from Banū ʿAdī b. Najjār, came out and said:
– O Messenger of God! Come to your maternal relatives; we have numbers, preparedness, and protective strength.
The Messenger of God said:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded.
They made way, and the camel went on. When it reached the house of Banū Mālik b. Najjār, it knelt at the door of the Prophet’s mosque. At that time, it was a place for drying dates belonging to two orphan boys from the Banū Mālik b. Najjār, who were under the guardianship of Muʿādh b. ʿAfrāʾ."
I say: According to al-Bukhārī’s narration from ʿUrwa through al-Zuhrī, these two orphans were under the guardianship of Asʿad b. Zurāra. Allah knows best.
According to Mūsā b. ʿUqba, as the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was passing by, he came to the door of ʿAbdullāh b. Ubayy b. Salūl’s house. At that time, ʿAbdullāh was at home. The Messenger of God waited for him to invite him in, as ʿAbdullāh was the leader of the Khazraj. ʿAbdullāh said to him:
– Look at those who are inviting you. Go and stay with them.
When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) told some of the Anṣār about this, Saʿd b. ʿUbāda apologized, saying:
– O Messenger of God, our Lord has favored us with you. Before you came, we were about to crown ʿAbdullāh b. Ubayy as our king.
Mūsā b. ʿUqba said: Before the Messenger of God set out from the territory of Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, the Anṣār began to walk around his camel, each competing to take its reins and host the Prophet out of respect and honor. As he passed by the house of each of the Anṣār, they invited him in. The Messenger of God replied:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded. I will stay where Allah has decreed for me to stay.
When he reached the house of Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī, the camel knelt at the door. The Messenger of God dismounted and entered Abū Ayyūb’s house, staying there until his mosque and blessed residence were built. Ibn Isḥāq said: When the camel knelt, the Messenger of God was still on it. He did not dismount but let the camel go a short distance, having released its reins. Then the camel turned back to the place where it had first knelt, knelt again, and did not move. It was so tired it could not rise. It placed its neck and chest on the ground. The Messenger of God then dismounted. Abū Ayyūb Khālid b. Zayd took his luggage and brought it into his house. The Messenger of God asked who owned the place for drying dates. Muʿādh b. ʿAfrāʾ said:
– O Messenger of God, it belongs to Sahl and Suhayl, the two sons of ʿAmr. They are two orphans under my guardianship. I will soon satisfy them regarding the land, so you may make it a mosque.
The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a mosque to be built there and settled in Abū Ayyūb’s house, remaining there until the mosque and his dwellings were completed. The Emigrants (Muhājirūn) and Anṣār Muslims also participated in the construction. Further details will be given, God willing.
Al-Bayhaqī, in his work Dalāʾil, narrates from Anas: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived in Medina, the Anṣār, men and women, came and said:
– Come to us, O Messenger of God!
The Messenger of God replied:
– Make way for my camel, for it is commanded.
His camel knelt at the door of Abū Ayyūb. The slave girls of the Banū Najjār tribe came beating their drums and singing:
"We are the slave girls of the Banū Najjār. Muḥammad is the best neighbor!"
The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) approached the singing girls and asked:
– Do you love me?
– Yes, by Allah, O Messenger of God!
– By Allah, I love you too. By Allah, I love you too. By Allah, I love you too, he said. Al-Bayhaqī also narrates from Anas: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a clan of the Banū Najjār and saw their slave girls beating drums and singing:
"We are the slave girls of the Banū Najjār. Muḥammad is the best neighbor!"
The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said to them: "Allah knows that my heart loves you." In Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, it is narrated from Anas: "When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw women and children—apparently returning from a wedding—he stood before them and said: 'By Allah, you are the most beloved of people to me.' He repeated this three times."
Imām Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal narrates from Anas b. Mālik:
"The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) rode toward Medina with Abū Bakr behind him. Abū Bakr was an elderly man and recognizable, but the Messenger of God was young and not recognized. When a man met Abū Bakr, he asked:
– O Abū Bakr, who is this man in front of you?
– He is a man guiding me on my way.
Those who did not know thought Abū Bakr meant the Messenger of God was his guide on the road, but he meant he was a guide to the path of goodness.
On the road, Abū Bakr looked back and saw a horseman approaching to catch them. He said:
– O Messenger of God, that horseman is about to catch us.
The Messenger of God looked back and said: "O Allah, make the horse stumble." The horse threw its rider, who then said:
– O Messenger of God, command me as you wish.
The Messenger of God said:
– Stay where you are and do not let anyone reach us.
The narrator says: That man had attacked the Messenger of God in the morning, but by evening he became his protector.
The narrator continues: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stopped in the black rocky area of Medina and sent word to the Anṣār. They came, greeted him and Abū Bakr, and said:
– Ride your mounts in safety and obedience.
The Messenger of God and Abū Bakr mounted and set out, surrounded by the Anṣār, who protected them with their weapons. News of the Prophet’s arrival spread in Medina, and the people came out to greet him, saying: "The Messenger of God has come."
The Messenger of God continued walking until he reached the house of Abū Ayyūb. While speaking with the household, ʿAbdullāh b. Salām heard his voice. ʿAbdullāh was working in his family’s date orchard. He hurried to finish his work, then came and sat with the Messenger of God, listened to his words, and returned to his family.
The Messenger of God asked: "Which of our relatives’ houses is closest to here?" Abū Ayyūb replied that his house was nearest and showed him the way. The Messenger of God said:
– Go and prepare a resting place for us.
Abū Ayyūb went, prepared a place, and returned, saying:
– O Messenger of God, I have prepared a resting place for you. Rise with Allah’s blessing and rest.
When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived at the resting place, ʿAbdullāh b. Salām came and said:
"I testify that you are truly the Messenger of Allah. I bear witness that what you have brought is true. The Jews know that I am their leader and the son of their leaders, the most knowledgeable among them and the son of their most knowledgeable. If you wish, call them and ask them yourself."
The Jews came to the Messenger of God, who said to them:
"O assembly of Jews, woe to you! Fear Allah. By Allah, besides whom there is no god, you know that I am truly the Messenger of Allah, and that what I have brought is true. So become Muslims!"
They replied three times: "We do not know that it is true."
Ibn Isḥāq narrates from Abū Ayyūb: "When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in my house, he went to the lower floor, while my wife Umm Ayyūb and I were upstairs. I said to him:
– O Messenger of God, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! I do not like being above you while you are below me. Please, go upstairs and let us move downstairs.
He replied:
– O Abū Ayyūb, it is more suitable for us and those around us to be on the lower floor.
The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed on the lower floor, and we were above. One day, our water jug broke. My wife and I took a velvet cloth—our only covering—and wiped up the water, fearing it might drip onto the Messenger of God and trouble him.
In the evenings, we would prepare food for him and send it to him. When he returned the leftovers, my wife and I would seek blessing by eating from the places his hand had touched. One night, we sent a meal containing onions and garlic. The Messenger of God returned it untouched. I went to him in fear and said: 'O Messenger of God, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! You did not eat the meal and returned it. We used to seek blessing from the traces of your hand.' The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
– I found the smell of that plant in the food. I am one who supplicates to Allah and engages in intimate prayer. But you may eat it.
So we ate it, but after that we never put that plant in our food again." Al-Bayhaqī narrates from Abū Ayyūb: "The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) came and settled on the lower floor of our house, while we were above. After a while, I realized we were walking above the Messenger of God. This could not be. So I told my family to sleep in a corner of the house.
Then I mentioned this to the Messenger of God, but he said:
– It is more suitable for us to stay on the lower floor.
But I insisted: 'I will not go upstairs while you are below.' So the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) moved upstairs, and I moved downstairs.
Abū Ayyūb would prepare food for the Messenger of God, and when he returned the leftovers, Abū Ayyūb would ask where his fingers had touched and eat from those places, seeking blessing. One day, he prepared a meal with garlic and brought it to the Messenger of God. When he took back the dish and asked about the finger marks, the Messenger of God said he had not eaten from it. Abū Ayyūb, worried, asked: 'Was the food forbidden?' The Messenger of God replied:
– No, but I did not like it.
Abū Ayyūb said: 'I will not like what you do not like.' The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) did not eat food with garlic because an angel would come to him."
In the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, it is narrated from Anas b. Mālik: A round dish—or, in another narration, a pot—containing a meal of broad beans and vegetables was brought to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). When he asked what kind of food it was, the vegetables and ingredients were described to him. Upon seeing the food, he did not wish to eat it and said: "You eat, for I am speaking with one whom you do not speak with."
Al-Wāqidī narrates that while the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) was a guest in the house of Abū Ayyūb, Asʿad b. Zurāra took the reins of his camel, which remained with him.
Zayd b. Thābit narrates: The first gift presented to the Messenger of God when he was a guest in the house of Abū Ayyūb was a dish of food I brought him. The dish contained bread soaked in milk and butter. I said: 'My mother sent this dish.' He said: 'May Allah bless you.' He called his Companions, and they all ate together. Then Saʿd b. ʿUbāda sent a dish of tharīd and meat. Every night, three or four people would be at ʿAlī’s door, bringing him food in turns. The Messenger of God stayed in the house of Abū Ayyūb for seven months. While there, he sent his freedman Zayd b. Ḥāritha and Abū Rāfiʿ with 500 dirhams and two camels to bring his daughters Fāṭima and Umm Kulthūm, his wife Sawda bint Zamʿa, and Usāma b. Zayd. At that time, his daughter Ruqayya had migrated with her husband ʿUthmān, and Zaynab was with her husband Abū al-ʿĀṣ b. al-Rabīʿ in Mecca. Zayd b. Ḥāritha’s wife Umm Ayman came with them. Abū Bakr’s son ʿAbdullāh brought Abū Bakr’s family, including the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾisha, to Medina. The Messenger of God had not yet consummated his marriage with ʿĀʾisha.
Al-Bayhaqī narrates from ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) entered Medina. His camel knelt between the house of Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī and the house of Ḥasan b. Zayd. People came to invite him to their homes, but his camel rose and moved on. He said to those present:
"Clear its path, for it is commanded."
Then it went to the place where the pulpit of the Prophet’s Mosque (al-Masjid al-Nabawī) now stands and knelt there. The Messenger of God dismounted. There was a shaded area where people would gather and cool off. The Messenger of God went to the shade and sat down. Abū Ayyūb came and said:
– O Messenger of God, the nearest house is mine. Shall we take your belongings to my house?
The Messenger of God agreed, and his belongings were taken to Abū Ayyūb’s house, where he also went. Then a man came and asked:
– O Messenger of God, where will you stay?
– A person stays where his luggage is.
The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) stayed in that shaded area for twelve nights until the mosque was built. This was a great distinction for Abū Ayyūb Khālid b. Zayd, for the Messenger of God was his guest.
Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb narrates from Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās: When Abū Ayyūb came to Basra, Ibn ʿAbbās was serving as governor there, appointed by ʿAlī. Ibn ʿAbbās came out to greet Abū Ayyūb and hosted him in his house just as he had hosted the Messenger of God, giving him ownership of everything in the house. When Abū Ayyūb wished to leave, Ibn ʿAbbās gave him 20,000 gold coins and forty slaves.
After Abū Ayyūb, the house passed to his freedman Aflah. Mughīra b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥārith b. Hishām bought the house from Aflah for 1,000 dinars, repaired its ruined parts, and donated it to a poor family from Medina.
The fact that the Messenger of God was hosted in the territory of the Banū Najjār and that Allah chose it as his place of residence is a great distinction. At that time, there were about nine neighborhoods in Medina, each with its own houses, palm groves, fields, and people. Among these adjacent villages and neighborhoods, Allah chose the neighborhood of the Banū Mālik b. Najjār as the Prophet’s place of residence.
In the authentic collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, it is narrated from Shuʿba, from Anas b. Mālik: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"The best houses of the Anṣār are those of the Banū Najjār, then those of the Banū Ḥāris b. Khazraj, then those of the Banū Sāʿida. There is good in all the houses of the Anṣār."
Saʿd b. ʿUbāda said: "I saw that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) gave everyone precedence over us. It was said: He has preferred you over many others."
This is the wording of al-Bukhārī.
Al-Bukhārī adds, in a hadith narrated by Abū Usayd: Abū Usayd said to Saʿd b. ʿUbāda: "Did you not see that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said all the houses of the Anṣār are good, but left us for last?"
Saʿd then went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of God! You said the houses of the Anṣār are good, but left us for last. What does this mean?"
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied:
"Is it not enough for you to be among the best?"
All the Muslims of Medina—who are the Anṣār—were granted honor and distinction in this world and the Hereafter. The Exalted Allah said:
"And the first forerunners among the Emigrants and the Anṣār and those who followed them with good conduct—Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever. That is the great attainment." (al-Tawba 9:100)
"And [also for] those who were settled in the Home [i.e., Medina] and [adopted] the faith before them. They love those who emigrated to them and find not any want in their breasts of what the emigrants were given but give [them] preference over themselves, even though they are in privation. And whoever is protected from the stinginess of his soul—it is those who will be the successful." (al-Hashr 59:9)
The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"If there were no Hijra, I would be one of the Anṣār. Even if all people went to a valley or neighborhood, I would go to the valley or neighborhood of the Anṣār. Truly, the Anṣār are like an inner garment, while others are like an outer cloak."
On another occasion, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"The Anṣār are my friends and confidants."
On another occasion, speaking of the Anṣār, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"I am at peace with those who are at peace with them, and I am at war with those who are at war with them."
Al-Bukhārī narrates from Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib: I heard the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) say:
"None loves the Anṣār except a believer, and none hates them except a hypocrite. Allah loves those who love them, and He hates those who hate them."
Al-Bukhārī narrates from Anas b. Mālik: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"A sign of iman (faith) is love for the Anṣār, and a sign of hypocrisy is hatred for the Anṣār."
There are indeed many verses and hadiths regarding the virtues of the Anṣār.
Among the Anṣār poets, the poem of Abū Qays Ṣirma b. Anas about the arrival of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) in Medina and the support and kindness shown to him and his Companions by the Muslims of Medina is a beautiful one.
Ibn Isḥāq says: Abū Qays Ṣirma b. Anas, describing how Allah granted them Islam and honored them by sending His Messenger especially to them, recited this poem:
"He stayed among Quraysh for more than ten years, hoping to find a suitable friend. He would present himself to those who came for the pilgrimage season, but found no one to host or invite him. When he came to us, Allah made his religion victorious, and in Medina he became content, joyful, and happy.
He found a friend, befriended him, and Allah granted him manifest help.
He tells us what Noah said to his people and what Moses said when he responded to the one who called him.
He no longer feared anyone among the people, whether near or far.
We gave him our lawful wealth and our souls in times of war and need. We know that there is no god but Allah, and we know that Allah is the best of guides.
Together, we attack and are hostile to those who attack and are hostile to people, even if they were once our close friends.
I say: Whenever I call upon you in every mosque, you are blessed, and those who call your name increase.
I say: When I pass through a place of fear, after compassion and mercy, show us compassion and mercy, and do not let our enemies prevail over us.
Take wide steps, for there are many causes of death, and you cannot make your soul immortal.
By Allah, if Allah does not appoint a protector for a person, he does not know how to protect himself.
When a date palm, thirsty for its Lord, is sated with water and remains in its place, it does not grieve."