It is narrated from Umm al-Mu'mineen Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with them both) were afflicted with fever. Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) went to them and said: O my father! How are you? O Bilal! How are you? Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) says that when Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) would get fever, he would recite a verse of poetry, the translation of which is: Every man wakes up in his house, and death is closer to him than the strap of his sandal. And when Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) would recover from fever, he would raise his voice and say: If only I knew whether I would spend another night in the valley of Makkah, with Idhkhir and Jalil (both are types of grass in Makkah) around me, and whether I would ever again come down to the water of Majannah (Majannah is a place several miles from Makkah, where there used to be markets in the time of ignorance), and whether I would ever again see Shamah and Tufail (two mountains about thirty miles from Makkah, or two springs). Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) heard these things and came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and related them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) then prayed:“O Lord! Put love for Madinah in our hearts equal to the love we had for Makkah or even more, and grant health and well-being in Madinah, and bless its sa’ and mudd (measures), and remove its fever, and send this fever to Juhfah.”