It is narrated from Ubayd bin Umayr that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) used to push through the crowd very forcefully at the two corners (the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone) (during tawaf). I said: O Abu Abdur-Rahman, you push through the crowd at these two corners so much that I have not seen any other of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) do so! He said: If I do so, it is because I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Touching these two is an expiation for sins." And I heard him say: "Whoever performs tawaf of this House seven times and completes it properly, it is equal to freeing a slave." And I heard him say: "He (the one performing tawaf) does not put down one foot nor lift the other except that Allah removes from him a sin because of it and records for him a good deed." This hadith is sahih (authentic) according to what I have explained about the condition of Ata bin al-Sa'ib, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.