The Ruling on Clinging to the Stones of the Ka'bah and Making Supplication There
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is clinging to the stones of the Ka'bah and making supplication there prescribed, or is it not? Is clinging to its sanctuary prescribed?
The Shaykh:
All of this is bid'ah (religious innovation); no evidence has been established for it. Yes, as for the practice where a person comes to the area between the Black Stone and the Rukn al-Yamani, attaches himself to the Ka'bah, and makes supplication, this has been reported from some of the Salaf (the earliest generations), and there is a hadith regarding it, which I believe is in Abu Dawud and others. So if someone does this, he is not to be treated harshly. However, clinging to the Ka'bah from other directions, such as from the side of the stone, or from the west, or between the two Yemeni corners, there is no evidence for this. The Ka'bah is the House of Allah; it is circumambulated and faced in prayer. This is what is prescribed.
Another questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
Is it not a established Sunnah?
Another questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
It is a departure in some way, but...
Another questioner:
Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you, is clinging to the stones of the Ka'bah and making supplication there prescribed, or is it not? Is clinging to its sanctuary prescribed?
The Shaykh:
All of this is bid'ah (religious innovation); no evidence has been established for it. Yes, as for the practice where a person comes to the area between the Black Stone and the Rukn al-Yamani, attaches himself to the Ka'bah, and makes supplication, this has been reported from some of the Salaf (the earliest generations), and there is a hadith regarding it, which I believe is in Abu Dawud and others. So if someone does this, he is not to be treated harshly. However, clinging to the Ka'bah from other directions, such as from the side of the stone, or from the west, or between the two Yemeni corners, there is no evidence for this. The Ka'bah is the House of Allah; it is circumambulated and faced in prayer. This is what is prescribed.
Another questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
Is it not a established Sunnah?
Another questioner:
Yes.
The Shaykh:
It is a departure in some way, but...
Another questioner:
Yes.
Source
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