´Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:` that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said about Makkah: "How sweet of a land you are and how dear you are to me, and if it were not that my people expelled me from you, I would not have lived in other than you."
Hadith ReferenceSunan at-Tirmidhi / Chapters on Virtues / Hadith: 3926