Explanation of the Book of Hajj-05b
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The reciter: Narrated to us Bayyan ibn 'Amr, narrated to us Yazid, narrated to us Jarir ibn Hazm, narrated to us Yazid ibn Ruman, from 'Urwah, from 'A'ishah (may Allah be pleased with her): Sahih al-Bukhari 1586, That is what led Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both) to demolish it. Yazid said: "I witnessed Ibn al-Zubayr when he demolished it and rebuilt it, and he included in it from the Hajar. I had seen the foundation of Ibrahim; it was stones like the humps of camels." Jarir said: "I said to him, 'Where is its location?'" He said: "I will show it to you now." So I entered the Hajar with him, and he pointed to a place and said, "Here." Jarir said: "I estimated from the Hajar six cubits or approximately that."
The Shaykh : This is explicit that the foundations of Ibrahim are without completing the enclosed Hajar. And on this basis, the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that the House is [as it is] can be understood, yes, for the most part, because six cubits and approximately that is more than the remainder.
Yes, Waleed, I understood now, did you understand the answer to your question? Yes. When Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) took charge of the Hijaz and the capital of his governorate was Makkah, he acted upon the hadith of his aunt and demolished the House and rebuilt it on the foundations of Ibrahim. He brought the people when he demolished it and said, "Bear witness to the original foundations." He made for it two doors, an eastern and a western one. Then, when the Umayyads took charge after the killing of 'Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both), they demolished what he had built and returned it to its current state. And this, praise be to Allah, is the very benefit, because if the Ka'bah had remained as Ibn al-Zubayr built it, harm would have resulted, which is that people would enter from this door to the other door, while the Ka'bah is locked with no opening or anything, and there would be the suffocation and crowding that is apparent now. Praise be to Allah, it has two doors: an eastern door and a western door, which is the space between it and the Hajar. So whoever wants to pray in the Ka'bah enters from one of the two doors and prays in the Hajar adjacent to the Ka'bah. Therefore, the reality, praise be to Allah, is... a benefit in what happened. And when one of the Umayyad caliphs took charge, and I think it was Harun al-Rashid, he consulted Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) whether to return the House to what Ibn al-Zubayr built or not? Imam Malik advised him not to do so and said to him, "Do not make the House of Allah a plaything for kings, every time a different king comes." So it became... in reality, praise be to Allah. Yes.
`Aisha said that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to her, "O Aisha! Were your nation not close to the Pre-Islamic Period of Ignorance, I would have had the Ka`ba demolished and would have included in it the portion which had been left, and would have made it at a level with the ground and would have made two doors for it, one towards the east and the other towards the west, and then by doing this it would have been built on the foundations laid by Abraham."
أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لها يا عائشة لولا أن قومك حديثو عهد بجاهلية لأمرت بالبيت فهدم فأدخلت فيه ما أخرج منه وألزقته بالأرض وجعلت له بابين باباً شرقياً وباباً غربياً فبلغت به أساس إبراهيمThe Shaykh : This is explicit that the foundations of Ibrahim are without completing the enclosed Hajar. And on this basis, the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that the House is [as it is] can be understood, yes, for the most part, because six cubits and approximately that is more than the remainder.
Yes, Waleed, I understood now, did you understand the answer to your question? Yes. When Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) took charge of the Hijaz and the capital of his governorate was Makkah, he acted upon the hadith of his aunt and demolished the House and rebuilt it on the foundations of Ibrahim. He brought the people when he demolished it and said, "Bear witness to the original foundations." He made for it two doors, an eastern and a western one. Then, when the Umayyads took charge after the killing of 'Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both), they demolished what he had built and returned it to its current state. And this, praise be to Allah, is the very benefit, because if the Ka'bah had remained as Ibn al-Zubayr built it, harm would have resulted, which is that people would enter from this door to the other door, while the Ka'bah is locked with no opening or anything, and there would be the suffocation and crowding that is apparent now. Praise be to Allah, it has two doors: an eastern door and a western door, which is the space between it and the Hajar. So whoever wants to pray in the Ka'bah enters from one of the two doors and prays in the Hajar adjacent to the Ka'bah. Therefore, the reality, praise be to Allah, is... a benefit in what happened. And when one of the Umayyad caliphs took charge, and I think it was Harun al-Rashid, he consulted Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) whether to return the House to what Ibn al-Zubayr built or not? Imam Malik advised him not to do so and said to him, "Do not make the House of Allah a plaything for kings, every time a different king comes." So it became... in reality, praise be to Allah. Yes.