Saheeh Seerah Al Albaanee English

‏﴿رَبَّنَاُتَقَبَُّل ‏ُمِنَّاُُۖإِنَّكَ‏ ‏ُأَنتَ‏ ‏ُالسَّمِيع ‏ُال عَلِيم﴾‏
{O our Lord! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-Hearing, the All-
Knowing.} [Surah al-Baqarah (2): 127]
The Prophet ﷺ added: ❝Then both of them went on building and going round the
Ka`bah saying: {O our Lord! Accept (this service) from us, Verily, You are the All-
Hearing, the All-Knowing.}❞ 72
Ibraaheem).
Ibn Jareer narrated that regarding the statement of Allaah: {And (O people), take you the Maqaam of Ibraaheem
as a place of prayer (for some of your prayers, e.g. two Rak`ah after the Ṭawaaf of the Ka`bah at Makkah)}
[Surah al-Baqarah (2):125]. Qataadah رمحهُاهلل said: “This means that the people were commanded to pray at that
place; they were not commanded to touch it. But this Ummah went beyond what was prescribed for it, to an
extent that no previous nation did. We have heard from those who saw the marks of his heels and toes on it, but
this Ummah kept touching them until they disappeared.” [Tafseer Ibn Katheer (1/417)]]
72 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (3364)
(Shaikh al-Albaanee said): Know O dear readers! The author (Ibn Katheer) did not mention this Ḥadeeth here. He
only made a reference to it saying that he had already mentioned it in the story of Ibraaheem عليهُالسالم in the “al-
Bidaayah wal-Nihaayah” (1/154-155). But I (al-Albaanee) saw it appropriate to mention it here for some of the
benefits it contains.
And the Prophet’s ﷺ statement: ❝The House (i.e. Ka`bah) at that time was on a high place…❞, means that it
was already built before Ibraaheem عليهُالسالم and al-Ḥaafiẓh (Ibn Ḥajar) mentioned a few statements (of the Salaf in
“al-Fatḥ”) which supports this, and the author (Ibn Katheer) also referred to them here, as well as in “al-Bidaayah
wal-Nihaayah”, and said: “It is from Israailiyyaat (narrations originating from Jewish and Christian traditions)”, and
عليهُ‏ further added: “and they are not authentic. The apparent meaning of the Qur’aan is that it was Ibraaheem
who was the first one to build it and the first one to lay its foundation; and before that, it was only a raised السالم
piece (of land), venerated throughout the ages.”
عليهمُ‏ I (al-Albaanee) say: As for its construction, then it is confirmed (that it was built by Ibraaheem and Ismaa`eel
before. but that does not negate that it could have been built upon the foundation which was there from ‏,(السالم
Rather, it has been clearly mentioned in one of the narrations reported by Imaam Aḥmad: “The foundations on
which Ibraaheem raised (the House) were there from before.”
[TN: This last narration which Shaikh al-Albaanee is referring to, that the foundation was from before and that it
was reported by Imaam Aḥmad, is in fact not found in his Musnad. Rather, it is found in the Tafseer of al-Ṭabaree
(3/58) as a statement of Ibn `Abbaas ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنهما ‏.رضي This is a Mawqoof narration (i.e. which stops at a Companion
‏.(ﷺ without reaching the Prophet
Moreover, what is authentically reported in the Musnad and the Ṣaḥeeḥain that the Prophet ﷺ said to
`Aaishah ‏ُاهلل ‏ُعنها ‏:رضي ❝Don’t you see that when your people built the Ka'bah, they reduced (its area with the
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