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We (Ibn Katheer) have mentioned the story of the construction of the House and the<br />
:تعاىل Aḥaadeeth regarding it in our Tafseer of Surah al-Baqarah, in the saying of <strong>Al</strong>laah<br />
﴿وَإِذُُيَر فَعُُإِب رَاهِيمُُال قَوَاعِدَُُمِنَُُال بَي تُُِوَإِْس َاعِيلُ﴾<br />
{And (remember) when Ibraaheem and (his son) Ismaa`eel were raising the<br />
foundations of the House…} [Surah al-Baqarah (2): 127]<br />
We have discussed this in great details over there, whoever wishes can refer to it.<br />
And all praise is for <strong>Al</strong>laah alone.<br />
befalling him, they followed him, demolished it until it was razed to the ground. Then Ibn Zubair erected pillars<br />
and hung curtains around them until the walls were raised. Ibn Zubair said: I heard `Aaishah رضيُاهللُعنها say that<br />
<strong>Al</strong>laah’s Messenger ﷺ said: ❝Were it not the people had not recently (abandoned) disbelief behind, and I do<br />
not have the means to reconstruct it, I would have definitely incorporated five cubits of al-Ḥijr into it. And I<br />
would also have constructed a door for the people to enter, and a door for their exit.❞ (Ibn Zubair said):<br />
“Today I have the means to spend and I do not fear the people.” So he added five cubits of area from the side of<br />
al-Ḥijr to it, and he excavated the (original) foundations of (al-Ḥijr) and the people looked at them, and he built on<br />
top of them. The length of the Ka`bah was eighteen cubits; when addition was made to it (which was in its<br />
breadth, then naturally the length appears to be) small (as compared with its breadth). Then addition of ten<br />
cubits (of area) was also added to its length. Two doors were also constructed, one of which (was meant) for<br />
entrance and the other one for exit. When Ibn Zubair was killed, al-Ḥajjaaj wrote to `Abdul-Malik (Ibn Marwaan)<br />
informing him about it, and telling him that Ibn Zubair رضيُاهللُعنهما had built (the Ka`bah) on those very foundations<br />
(which were laid by Ibraaheem ُالسالم (عليه and which reliable persons among the people of Makkah had seen.<br />
`Abdul-Malik wrote to him: ‘We do not approve of what Ibn Zubair did. As for what he added to its length, leave it<br />
as it is, and whatever he added to it of al-Ḥijr, revert to (its previous) foundation, and block up the door which he<br />
had opened.’ Thus Ḥajjaaj (at the command of Abdul-Malik) demolished it (that portion) and rebuilt it on (its<br />
previous) foundations.]<br />
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