It was a few days before his death... He was ill... He went up to the pulpit in the mosque with great difficulty. He addressed the people who migrated to Madinah and whose population exceeded the native people of Madinah as follows:

“Treat the natives of Madinah well because other people are increasing in number but they are not. They were my shelter. Return their favors by favors; forgive them when they do bad deeds.”