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ahmad:15132Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad > al-Fuḍayl / Ibn Sulaymān > Muḥammad b. Abū Yaḥyá > al-Ḥārith b. Abū Yazīd > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī

[Machine] "A group of people came to the city with the Prophet ﷺ, and there was a disease in it. So the Prophet ﷺ forbade them from leaving until he gave them permission. But they left without his permission, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Indeed, the city is like a sieve that filters out impurities, just as a sieve filters out impurities from iron.'"  

أحمد:١٥١٣٢حَدَّثَنَا حُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْفُضَيْلُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سُلَيْمَانَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي يَحْيَى عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ أَبِي يَزِيدَ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ

أَنَّ قَوْمًا قَدِمُوا الْمَدِينَةَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَبِهَا مَرَضٌ فَنَهَاهُمُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَنْ يَخْرُجُوا حَتَّى يَأْذَنَ لَهُمْ فَخَرَجُوا بِغَيْرِ إِذْنِهِ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِنَّمَا الْمَدِينَةُ كَالْكِيرِ تَنْفِي الْخَبَثَ كَمَا يَنْفِي الْكِيرُ خَبَثَ الْحَدِيدِ