Tarikh (al-Tabari) 675
Quraysh's Building of the Kaʿbah and the Prophet's ﷺ Judgment Among Them in Placing the Stone
[ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ وَهَدْمُ الْكَعْبَةِ، وَمَا وَجَدُوهُ تَحْتَ الْهَدْمِ ] ثُمَّ إنَّ النَّاسَ هَابُوا هَدْمَهَا وَفَرِقُوا مِنْهُ، فَقَالَ الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ: أَنَا أَبْدَؤُكُمْ فِي هَدْمِهَا، فَأَخَذَ الْمِعْوَلَ، ثُمَّ قَامَ عَلَيْهَا، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: اللَّهُمَّ لَمْ تُرَعْ - قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: لَمْ نَزِغْ - اللَّهُمَّ إنَّا لَا نُرِيدُ إلَّا الْخَيْرَ. ثُمَّ هَدَمَ مِنْ نَاحِيَةِ الرُّكْنَيْنِ، فَتَرَبَّصَ النَّاسُ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ، وَقَالُوا: نَنْظُرُ، فَإِنْ أُصِيبَ لَمْ نَهْدِمْ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا وَرَدَدْنَاهَا كَمَا كَانَتْ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يُصِبْهُ شَيْءٌ، فَقَدْ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ صُنْعَنَا، فَهَدَمْنَا. فَأَصْبَحَ الْوَلِيدُ مِنْ لَيْلَتِهِ غَادِيًا عَلَى عَمَلِهِ، فَهَدَمَ وَهَدَمَ النَّاسُ مَعَهُ، حَتَّى إذَا انْتَهَى الْهَدْمُ بِهِمْ إلَى الْأَسَاسِ، أَسَاسِ إبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ، أَفْضَوْا إلَى حِجَارَةٍ خُضْرٍ كَالْأَسْنِمَةِ آخِذٌ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ مَنْ يَرْوِي الْحَدِيثَ: أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ، مِمَّنْ كَانَ يَهْدِمُهَا، أَدْخَلَ عَتَلَةً بَيْنَ حَجَرَيْنِ مِنْهَا لِيُقْلِعَ بِهَا أَحَدَهُمَا، فَلَمَّا تَحَرَّكَ الْحَجَرُ تَنَقَّضَتْ مَكَّةُ بِأَسْرِهَا، فَانْتَهَوْا عَنْ ذَلِكَ الْأَسَاسِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحُدِّثْتُ أَنَّ قُرَيْشًا وَجَدُوا فِي الرُّكْنِ كِتَابًا بِالسُّرْيَانِيَّةِ، فَلَمْ يَدْرُوا مَا هُوَ حَتَّى قَرَأَهُ لَهُمْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ يَهُودَ، فَإِذَا هُوَ: أَنَا اللَّهُ ذُو بَكَّةَ، خَلَقْتهَا يَوْمَ خَلَقْتُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ، وَصَوَّرْتُ الشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ، وَحَفَفْتهَا بِسَبْعَةِ أَمْلَاكٍ حُنَفَاءَ، لَا تَزُولُ حَتَّى يَزُولَ أَخْشَبَاهَا، مُبَارَكٌ لِأَهْلِهَا فِي الْمَاءِ وَاللَّبَنِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَخْشَبَاهَا: جَبَلَاهَا. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحُدِّثْتُ أَنَّهُمْ وَجَدُوا فِي الْمَقَامِ كِتَابًا فِيهِ: مَكَّةُ بَيْتُ اللَّهِ الْحَرَامِ يَأْتِيهَا رِزْقُهَا مِنْ ثَلَاثَةِ سُبُلٍ، لَا يُحِلُّهَا أَوَّلُ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَزَعَمَ لَيْثُ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمٍ أَنَّهُمْ وَجَدُوا حَجَرًا فِي الْكَعْبَةِ قَبْلَ مَبْعَثِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً، إنْ كَانَ مَا ذَكَرَ حَقًّا، مَكْتُوبًا فِيهِ: مَنْ يَزْرَعْ خَيْرًا يَحْصُدْ غِبْطَةً، وَمَنْ يَزْرَعْ شَرًّا يَحْصُدْ نَدَامَةً. تَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ، وَتُجْزَوْنَ الْحَسَنَاتِ أَجَلْ، كَمَا لَا يُجْتَنَى مِنْ الشَّوْكِ الْعِنَبُ.
Translation
✧ [Al-Walīd b. al-Mughīrah and the demolition of the Kaʿbah, and what they found beneath the demolition] Then the people were in awe of demolishing it and were afraid of it. So al-Walīd b. al-Mughīrah said: “I will be the first of you in demolishing it.” He took the pickaxe, then stood over it, saying: “O Allah, we are not afraid – Ibn Hishām said: it is also said: we have not deviated – O Allah, we intend nothing but good.” Then he demolished from the side of the two corners. The people waited that night and said: “We will watch. If he is struck, we will not demolish any of it and we will restore it as it was; and if nothing befalls him, then Allah has approved our action, and we will demolish.” Al-Walīd rose in the morning from his night going early to his work, and he demolished, and the people demolished with him, until when the demolition brought them to the foundation, the foundation of Ibrāhīm ﷺ, they came upon green stones like camel humps, one holding fast to another. Ibn Isḥāq said: Some of those who transmit the report narrated to me that a man of Quraysh, one of those who was demolishing it, inserted a crowbar between two of its stones to pry one of them loose. When the stone moved, all of Makkah shook, so they desisted from that foundation. Ibn Isḥāq said: I was told that Quraysh found in the corner a writing in Syriac, and they did not know what it was until a man of the Jews read it for them, and it was: “I am Allah, Lord of Bakkah. I created it on the day I created the heavens and the earth, and I formed the sun and the moon, and I surrounded it with seven upright angels. It will not cease until its two mountains cease. Blessed for its people in water and milk.” Ibn Hishām said: Its two akhshab are its two mountains. Ibn Isḥāq said: I was told that they found in the Maqām a writing in which was: “Makkah is the sacred house of Allah. Its provision comes to it from three roads. The first of its people does not make it lawful.” Ibn Isḥāq said: Layth b. Abī Sulaym alleged that they found a stone in the Kaʿbah forty years before the sending of the Prophet ﷺ – if what he mentioned is true – on which was written: “Whoever sows good reaps happiness, and whoever sows evil reaps regret. You do evil deeds and are rewarded with good deeds. Yes, as grapes are not gathered from thorns.”
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