Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 186 – Volume 5, Book 58

English

Volume 5, Book 58, Number 186:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah caused the day of Buath to take place before Allah's Apostle was sent (as an Apostle) so that
when Allah's Apostle reached Medina, those people had already divided (in different groups) and
their chiefs had been killed or wounded. So Allah made that day precede Allah's Apostle so that they
(i.e. the Ansar) might embrace Islam.
Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: To run along the valley between two green pillars of Safa and Marwa
(mountains) was not Sunna, but the people in the pre-islamic period of ignorance used to run along
it, and used to say: "We do not cross this rain stream except running strongly. "