wait for the inhabitants of Makkah, until I get them with me in the middle of Haramayn Shareefayn. (Sunan-ut-Tirmizi, vol. 5, pp. 388, Hadees 3712)

In his Na’tiyah Deewan ‘Wasail-e-Bakhshish’, expressing the feelings of dying and being buried in Holy Madinah, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه has mentioned:

عطا کر دو عطا کر دو بقیعِ پاک میں مدفن

مِری بن جائے تُربت یا شہِ کوثر مدینے میں

Dear Islamic brothers! We have also learnt this Madani pearl from the blessed Hadees that it is prohibited to call blessed Madinah ‘Yasrib’, therefore, we should avoid uttering and writing this word. Alas, nowadays ignorance is everywhere, some naïve Muslims due to having no Islamic knowledge, write and read the word ‘Yasrib’ instead of using the names mentioned in the Holy Quran and Blessed Hadees when referring to Holy Madinah. Ccording to the meaning of the word ‘Yasrib’, by no means is it up to the high standard of Holy Madinah.

A renowned commentator, a great thinker of the Ummah, Mufti Ahmad Yar Khan رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: ‘Yasrib’ means the place of calamity and disaster, as this place was full of diseases, therefore it was called ‘Yasrib’. By virtue of the blessings of the Rasool of Rahmah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم it has become ‘Taybah’, that is, it has become the purified land, now the place has become ‘Dar-ush-Shifa’ (the place of cure) instead of ‘Dar-ul-Waba’ (the place of calamity).

(Mirat-ul-Manajih, vol. 6, pp. 294)

It is sufficient for the lovers of the beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم to avoid this word because the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم forbade calling this pure city as ‘Yasrib’. The Greatest Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said: ‘مَنْ قَالَ لِلْمَدِيْنَةِ يَثْرِبَ فَكَفَّارَتُهُ اَنْ يَّقُوْلَ الْمَدِيْنَةَ عَشَرَ مَرَّاتٍ’, i.e. The person, who (unintentionally) calls this city ‘Yasrib’, he must say ‘Madinah’ 10 times as a compensation. (Kanz-ul-‘Ummal, Juz: 6, vol. 12, pp. 116, Hadees 34938)