Al-Nasa’i narrated on the authority of Abdullah bin Adi bin Al-Hamra that he heard the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, while he was standing on his camel during the Hazra from Mecca, saying to Mecca, “By God, by God, you are the best of God’s earth and the most beloved of God’s land to God, and if I had not expelled you, I would not have expelled.”