When Allâh's Messenger (ﷺ) reached Al-Madîna, Bakr and Bilâl became ill. When Bakr's fever got worse, he would recite (this poetic verse):-" Everybody is staying alive with his people, yet death is nearer to him than his shoe laces." And Bilâl, when his fever deserted him, would recite: " Would that I could stay overnight in a valley wherein I would be surrounded by Idhkhir and Jalîl (kinds of good-smelling grass). Would that one day I could drink the water of the Majinna, would that (the two mountains) Shâma and Tafeel would appear to me! " The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "O Allâh. ! Curse Shaiba bin Rabî'a and ' Utba bin Rabî'a and Umaiyya bin Khalaf as they turned us out of our land to the land of epidemics." Allâh's Messenger (ﷺ) then said, "O Allâh ! Make us love Al-Madîna as we love Makka or even more than that. O Allâh ! Give blessings in our ' and our Mûdd (measures symbolising food) and make the climate of Al-Madîna suitable for us, and divert its fever owards Al-Juḥfa. ('Aisha idded). When we reached Al-Madîna, It was the most unhealthy of Allâh's ands, and the valley of Buthân (the alley of Al-Madîna) used to flow with mpure coloured water. [3:113-O.B]