The First Address of the Prophet ﷺ Upon Arrival in Madinah✒ Written by: Abu Mu'adh bin Mujaddid
Source: Monthly Al-Hadith, Hazro❖ Testimony from Among the People:
﴿وَشَهِدَ شَاهِدٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَا﴾
A witness from her own people testified...
❖ The Testimony of ʿAbdullāh ibn Salām رضي الله عنه
Sayyidunā ʿAbdullāh ibn Salām al-Isrāʾīlī رضي الله عنه narrates:
When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Madinah, people rushed towards him in great numbers, saying:
“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has arrived!”
So, I too went along with the crowd to see him.
When I looked at the face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I immediately realized that this is not the face of a liar.
❖ The Prophet ﷺ’s First Words in Madinah
The very first statement he ﷺ made was:
"يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ! أَفْشُوا السَّلَامَ، وَأَطْعِمُوا الطَّعَامَ، وَصَلُّوا وَالنَّاسُ نِيَامٌ، تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ بِسَلَامٍ"
Translation:
“O people! Spread Salām, feed one another, pray while people are asleep, and you shall enter Paradise in peace.”
(Sunan al-Tirmidhī, Book of Asceticism, Chapter 42, Ḥadīth 2385)
Tirmidhī: This ḥadīth is ḥasan (authentic).
Ḥākim: Ṣaḥīḥ according to the conditions of al-Bukhārī and Muslim
Al-Dhahabī agreed with him (al-Mustadrak, 3:120)
