أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ، حَدَّثَنِي اللَّيْثُ ، حَدَّثَنِي عُقَيْلٌ ، عَنْ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ : أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عَدِيِّ بْنِ الْحَمْرَاءِ الزُّهْرِيَّ ، قَالَ : رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ وَاقِفًا بِالْحَزْوَرَةِ ، يَقُولُ :" وَاللَّهِ إِنَّكِ لَخَيْرُ أَرْضِ اللَّهِ، وَأَحَبُّ أَرْضِ اللَّهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ، وَلَوْلا أَنِّي أُخْرِجْتُ مِنْكِ مَا خَرَجْتُ "

Abdullah bin Salih told us, Al-Layth told me, Aqeel told me, on the authority of Ibn Shihab, Abu Salamah bin Abdul Rahman told me: Abdullah bin Adi bin Al-Hamra Al-Zuhri said: I saw the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was on his mount, standing at the Hazara. He says: “By God, you are the best of God’s earth, and the most beloved of God’s earth, and had I not been expelled from you, I would not have left.”