Al-Nasāʾī likewise transmits the report, through Qutaybah from al-Layth, with the same chain (1).
Imām Aḥmad also relates it (2) by way of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥārith, from her, in similar terms.
Al-Bayhaqī (3) recounts: Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ and Abū Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿAmr informed us, saying, “Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār narrated to us; Yūnus ibn Bukayr narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Madinah when it was the most pestilential land on earth, and its valley, Butḥān, was a flood-course.
Hishām added, “Its plague was well-known in the pre-Islamic era. Whenever a valley was infamous for disease and someone stood overlooking it, he would be told to bray like a donkey; if he did so, the valley’s sickness would not harm him.”’
A poet, on first sighting Madinah, declared:
[Ṭawīl]
By my life! Should I, for dread of ruin,
bray the donkey’s bray—indeed I am in fear. (5)
Al-Bukhārī (6) records—through Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from Sālim, from his father—that the Prophet ﷺ said:
“I saw in a dream a black woman with dishevelled hair leaving Madinah until she halted at Mahyaʿah—namely al-Juhfah. I interpreted it to mean that the sickness of Madinah had been transferred to Mahyaʿah, which is al-Juhfah.”
This is Bukhārī’s wording; Muslim did not record it. The ḥadīth was also reported by al-Tirmidhī, who declared it sound, as well as by al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Mājah (7) through Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah.
Hammād ibn Zayd likewise narrated—from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah [from his father], from ʿĀʾishah—that she said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Madinah when it was rife with fever’ (8). He then related the full report up to the words:
“…and transfer its fever to al-Juhfah.”
Hishām added, ‘A child born in al-Juhfah would not reach puberty before the fever felled him.’
Al-Bayhaqī recorded this in Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah (9).