Muwatta Malik #1747
Madina
Yahya related to me that Malik said, "I heard that Umar ibn al-
Khattab said, 'A night in Rukba (a valley near Taif,) is more
preferable to me than ten nights in ash-Sham.' "
Malik said,
"He meant to lengthen and preserve their lives because of the severity
of the plague in ash-Sham ."
About Muwatta Malik
This hadith is #1747 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Madina. Muwatta Malik contains 1,985 hadiths across 61 books.