What he asked for Madinah when the fever came
Abu Bakr and Bilal were both down with it.
اللَّهُمَّ حَبِّبْ إِلَيْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ كَحُبِّنَا مَكَّةَ أَوْ أَشَدَّ، اللَّهُمَّ وَصَحِّحْهَا
Allāhumma ḥabbib ilaynā-l-madīnata ka-ḥubbinā Makkata aw ashadd. Allāhumma wa ṣaḥḥiḥhā
“O Allah, make Madinah beloved to us as Makkah is beloved to us, or more. O Allah, and make it healthy.”
It continues: bless us in its mudd and its ṣāʿ, and move its fever to al-Juḥfah.
Where this comes from
Aisha went in to them both. Abu Bakr, when the fever took him, was reciting a line about death being nearer than a man's sandal strap. Bilal, when it lifted, was reciting about the valley he grew up in. She went and told the Prophet. The first thing he asked for was not the cure. It was that they should love the place.
The full narration
Narrated `Aisha:When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) emigrated to Medina, Abu Bakr and Bilal got a fever. I entered upon them and asked, "O my father! How are you? O Bilal! How are you?" Whenever fever attacked Abu Bakr, he would recite the following poetic verses: 'Everybody is staying alive among his people, yet death is nearer to him than his shoe laces." And whenever the fever deserted Bilal, he would recite (two poetic lines): 'Would that I could stay overnight in a valley wherein I would be surrounded by Idhkhir and Jalil (two kinds of good smelling grass). Would that one day I would drink of the water of Majinna and would that Shama and Tafil (two mountains at Mecca) would appear to me.' Then I came and informed Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about that, whereupon he said, "O Allah! Make us love Medina as much or more than we love Mecca. O Allah! Make it healthy and bless its Mudd and Sa for us, and take away its fever and put it in Al Juhfa
Source
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · 5654
- Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)