The Ruling on Clinging to the Ka'bah and Adhering to It

Question:
First, does clinging to the living Ka'bah and supplicating indicate that one is angry with it? Is clinging to the right, prescribed thing?

Answer:
All of this is bid'ah (religious innovation); there is no new evidence for it. Yes, as for adhering to it—adhering is when a person comes to the area between the Black Corner and the Yemeni Corner, attaches himself to the Ka'bah, and supplicates. This was reported from some of the Salaf (the earliest generations), and there is a hadith in Abu Dawud and others. So if someone does this, he is not strictly held to it. However, clinging to the Ka'bah from other sides, from the side of the Stone or from the west or between the two Yemeni Corners, this has not been established. The Ka'bah is the House of Allah; it is to be purified and faced in prayer, and that is what is prescribed. Yes. Yes. What is the Sunnah? Yes. It is a matter of something, but... Yes.