Abu Hurairah (RA) reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: A time will come for the people (of Madinah) when a man will invite his cousin and any other near relation: Come (and settle) at (a place) where living is cheap, come to where there is plenty, but Madinah will be better for them; would they know it! By Him in Whose Hand is my life, none amongst them would go out (of the city) with a dislike for it, but Allah would make his successor in it someone better than he. Behold. Madinah is like a furnace which eliminates from it the impurities. And the Last Hour will not come until Madinah banishes its evils just as a furnace eliminates the impurities of iron.