It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man among the Arabs would worship a stone, and when he found a better stone than it, he would throw away the first and take up the second (as his object of worship). So Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, revealed this verse: "Have you seen the one who has taken his own desire as his god?" [al-Jathiyah: 23] This hadith is sahih (authentic) in its chain of narration, and the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.