Volume 6, Book 60, Number 23:
Narrated ‘Asim bin Sulaiman:
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SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 6 > BOOK 60: PROPHETIC COMMENTARY ON THE QUR’AN (TAFSEER OF THE PROPHET (PBUH))
I asked Anas bin Malik about Safa and Marwa. Anas replied, “We used to consider (i.e. going
around) them a custom of the Pre-islamic period of Ignorance, so when Islam came, we gave up go –
ing around them. Then Allah revealed” “Verily, Safa and Marwa (i.e. two mountains at Mecca) are
among the Symbols of Allah. So it is not harmful of those who perform the Hajj of the House (of Al –
lah) or perform the Umra to ambulate (Tawaf) between them.” (2.158)