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." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3926)
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِمَكَّةَ «مَا أَطْيَبَكِ مِنْ بَلْدَةٍ وَأَحَبَّكِ إِلَيَّ وَلَوْلَا أَنَّ قَوْمَكِ أَخْرَجُونِي مَا سَكَنْتُ غَيْرَكِ»