She said, “So I exclaimed, ‘By Allah, my father does not know what he is saying.’
I then moved over to ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah and asked, ‘How are you feeling, ʿĀmir?’ He replied:
[rajaz]
I have met with death before ever tasting it; (1)
the coward’s doom hangs poised above his head.
Each man fights within the collar set upon him,
like a bull that shields its hide with its horns.
I said, ‘By Allah, ʿĀmir does not know what he is saying.’
Whenever the fever struck Bilāl, he would lie in the courtyard, raise his voice, and recite:
[Ṭawīl]
Would that I knew—shall I ever spend a night
in Fakhkh, ringed about with idhkhir and jalīl? (2)
And shall I one day reach the waters of Majannah,
and will Shāmah and Tufayl again appear to me?
ʿĀʾishah continued: “I repeated to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ what I had heard from them and said, ‘They are raving in delirium; they do not realise what they are saying because of the intensity of the fever.’ He then prayed:
‘O Allah, endear Madinah to us as You have endeared Makkah—or even more so; bless its mudd and its sāʿ for us, and transfer its disease to Mahyaʿah.’
Mahyaʿah is al-Juhfah.
Imam Aḥmad (3) likewise narrates—through Yūnus, al-Layth, Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, Abū Bakr ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār, ʿAbd-Allāh ibn ʿUrwah, and ʿUrwah—from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
‘When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ reached Madinah, his Companions fell ill, as did Abū Bakr, ʿĀmir ibn Fuhayrah (Abū Bakr’s freedman), and Bilāl. I sought permission from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to visit them, and he granted it.
‘I asked Abū Bakr, “How are you feeling?” He answered:
[rajaz]
Every man greets the morning in the midst of his people,
yet death is nearer to him than the strap of his sandal.
‘I then questioned ʿĀmir, and he replied:
[rajaz]
I have met with death before ever tasting it;
the coward’s doom hangs poised above his head.
‘Next I asked Bilāl, and he said:
[Ṭawīl]
Oh, would that I knew—shall I ever spend a night
in Fakhkh, ringed about with idhkhir and jalīl? (4)
‘I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and informed him. He lifted his gaze to the sky and supplicated:
“O Allah, endear Madinah to us as You have endeared Makkah—or even more so. O Allah, bless its sāʿ and its mudd for us, and transfer its sickness to Mahyaʿah.”
They maintain that Mahyaʿah is al-Juhfah.'