Ya'qub b. ‘Asim b. ‘Urwa said he heard ash-Sharid say : I hastened with God’s messenger and his feet did not touch the ground till he came to Jam'.
Abu Dawud transmitted it.
Ibn Shihab said Salim told him that in the year al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf attacked Ibn az-Zubair (Abdallah b. az-Zubair who was in Mecca had laid claims to the Caliphate. ‘Abd al-Malik, the Umayvad Caliph, sent an army under al…