"If a person comes to Me walking, I will go to him running." Is this a sacred hadith or a verse?

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"If a person comes to Me walking, I will go to him running." Is this a sacred hadith or a verse?
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It is a sacred hadith.

1. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) says,

"Allah says, 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than them; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running. If he comes to me with sins that will fill the world without associating partners with Me, I will welcome him with pardoning as big as that.’" [Bukhari, Tawhid 16, 35; Muslim, Dhikr 2, (2675), Tawba 1, (2675)]

2. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) says,

"Allah says, ‘Anyone who does a good deed is given tenfold of thawabs; or I will increase it. Anyone who commits a sin is punished once; or I will forgive him. If a person comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him.If a person comes to Me walking, I will go to him running.  If he comes to me with sins that will fill the world without associating partners with Me, I will welcome him with pardoning as big as that.’" [Muslim, Dhikr 22, (2687)]

3. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) says,

"Allah says, 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than them; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.’" [Bukhari, Tawhid 50; Muslim, Dhikr 2, (2675); Tirmidhi, Da'awat 142, (3598)]

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