Sirat Ibn Hisham 222
al-Walīd b. al-Mughīrah and the demolition of the Kaʿbah and what they found beneath the demolition
[ 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, the Demolition of the Kaʿbah, and What They Found Beneath the Demolition] Then the people feared to demolish it and shrank from it, so al-Walīd b. al-Mughīrah said: “I shall be the first of you in demolishing it.” He took the pickaxe, then stood over it, saying: “O Allah, may You not be frightened — 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, and the people waited that night, saying: “We shall see. If he is smitten, we will not demolish any of it and we will restore it as it was; but if nothing befalls him, then Allah is pleased with what we have done, so we will demolish.” Al-Walīd rose in the morning after that 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, each interlocked with the other. Ibn Isḥāq said: One of those who transmit the report narrated to me that a man of Quraysh, among those who were demolishing it, inserted a crowbar between two of its stones to pry one of them up with it. When the stone moved, all of Makkah quaked, so they stopped at 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 there 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 shall not cease until its two mountains cease to be. Blessed is it for its people in water and milk.” Ibn Hishām said: 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; its first inhabitant shall not make it lawful.” Ibn Isḥāq said: Layth b. Abī Sulaym claimed 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 shall harvest gladness; whoever sows evil shall harvest regret. You commit evil deeds and are rewarded with good deeds? No, just as grapes are not gathered from thornbushes.”
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