Ma’ruf bin Kharrabudh Al-Makki narrated:`“I heard Abu Tufail, ‘Amir bin Wathilah, say: ‘I saw the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) performing Tawaf on his camel, touching the corner with his staff and kissing the staff.’”

It was narrated from Nafi’, from Ibn ‘Umar that when the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) performed Tawaf around the House for the first time, he walked briskly with short steps in the first three circuits, and walked normally in the last four, starting and ending at the Hijr.* And Ibn ‘Umar used to do that.

It was narrated from Jabir that the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) walked briskly (Ramala), from the Hijr to the Hijr, three times, then he walked normally for four.

It was narrated from Zaid bin Aslam that his father said:`“I heard ‘Umar say: ‘Why do they perform Ramal now, when Allah has established Islam and done away with disbelief and its people? By Allah,* we will not give up something that we used to do at the time of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ).’”

It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbas said:`“During his ‘Umrah after Hudaibiyah – when they wanted to enter Makkah – the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said to his Companions: ‘Your people will see you tomorrow, so let them see you looking strong.’ When they entered the mosque, they touched the corner and started to walk briskly, and the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) was with them. When they reached the Yemenite Corner, they walked normally to the Black Corner (the corner where the Black Stone is), then they walked briskly until they reached the Yemenite Corner, then they walked normally to the Black Corner. They did that three times, then they walked normally for four circuits.”

It was narrated from Ibn Ya’la bin Umayyah that his father Ya’la said:`“The Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) performed Tawaf while doing Idtiba’.”* (In his narration, one of the narrators) Qabisah said:“While wearing a Yemenite cloth.”

It was narrated that ‘Aishah said:`“I asked the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) about the Hijr, and he said: ‘It is part of the House.’ I said: ‘What kept them from incorporating it into it?’ He said: ‘They ran out of funds.’ I said: ‘Why is its door so high up that it can only be reached with a ladder?’* He said: ‘That is what your people did so that they could let in whoever they wanted and keep out whoever they wanted. Were it not that your people have so recently left disbelief behind, and I am afraid that it would bother them, I would have changed it, incorporating what they left out and I would put its door at ground level.”

It was narrated that ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar said:`“I heard the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) say: ‘Whoever performs Tawaf around the House and prays two Rak’ah, it is as if he freed a slave.’”

Humaid bin Abu Sawiyyah said: I heard Ibn Hisham asking ‘Ata’ bin Abu Rabah about the Yemenite Corner, when he was performing Tawaf around the House. ‘Ata’ said: Abu Hurairah told me that the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said:“Seventy angels have been appointed over it. Whoever says: Allahumma inni as’alukal-‘afwa wal-‘afiyah fid-dunya wal-akhirah; Rabbana atina fid-dunya hasanah, wa fil-akhirati hasanah, wa qina ‘adhaban-Nar (O Allah, I ask You for pardon and well-being in this world and in the Hereafter. Our Lord, give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter and protect us from the torment of the Fire), they say: Amin.”When he reached the Black Corner (where the Black Stone is), he said: O Abu Muhammad! What have you heard about this Black Corner? ‘Ata’ said: Abu Hurairah told me that he heard the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) say:“Whoever faces it is facing the Hand of the Most Merciful.’”Ibn Hisham said to him: O Abu Muhammad, what about Tawaf? ‘Ata’ said: Abu Hurairah told me that he heard the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) say:“Whoever performs Tawaf around the House seven times and does not say anything except: Subhan Allah wal-hamdu lillah, wa la ilaha illallah wa Allahu Akbar, wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah (Glory is to Allah, praise is to Allah, none has the right to be worshipping but Allah, and there is no power nor strength except with Allah), ten bad deeds will be erased from him, ten merits will be recorded for him, and he will be raised ten degrees in status. Whoever performs Tawaf and talks when he is in that situation, is wading in mercy like one who wades in water.”

It was narrated that Muttalib said:`“When he finished seven (circuits of Tawaf), I saw the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) come until he was parallel with the Corner, then he prayed two Rak’ah at the edge of the Mataf (area for Tawaf), and there was nothing between him and the people who were performing Tawaf.”