al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5045

Translation

✧ In the pre-Islamic era, the Kaaba was built of loose stones, with no mud. It was only as high as a young goat could leap over, and it was not roofed. Its covering was simply placed on top and let hang down. The Black Corner was set on its wall, visible. It had two corners, like a ring, square on one side and round on the other. A ship came from the land of the Romans, and when it was near Jeddah, it broke apart. Quraysh went out to take its timber and found a Roman with it. They took the timber, and he gave it to them. The ship had been heading for Abyssinia, and the Roman on the ship was a merchant. They brought the timber and the Roman. Quraysh said, 'We will build the House of our Lord with this timber.' When they wanted to demolish it, behold, there was a snake on the wall of the House, white-bellied and black-backed. Every time someone approached the House to demolish it or take a stone from it, it rushed at him with its mouth open. Quraysh gathered at the Maqam and cried out to Allah, exalted is He. He said: They said, 'Our Lord, we are not afraid. We intended to honor and adorn Your House. If You approve of that, then so be it; otherwise, whatever You decide, do.' They heard an answer from the sky, and behold, there was a bird larger than a vulture, black-backed, with white belly and legs. It sank its talons into the snake's belly and carried it off, dragging it with its tail hanging down, until it took it toward Ajyad. Quraysh demolished it, and they began rebuilding it with stones from the valley, carrying them on their necks, and they raised it twenty cubits into the air. While the Prophet ﷺ was carrying stones from Ajyad, wearing a striped cloak, the cloak was too tight for him, and part of it slipped from his shoulder, so his private area was visible because of the smallness of the cloak. A voice called out, 'O Muhammad, cover your private area.' He was never seen naked after that. Between its building and what Allah revealed to him was fifteen years. When the army of al-Husayn b. Numayr came... and he mentioned its burning in the time of Ibn al-Zubayr ؓ.

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 23800Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 3305Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 9200

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀmir b. Wāthilah

   He saw the Prophet (ruʾyah) but did not meet him as a Companiond. 100 AH, or: 102 AH, or: 107 AH, or: 110 AH
   عَامِر بْن وَاثِلَةله رؤية
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUthmān b. Khuthaym

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: died before the year 144 AH, and it has been said: 135 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: died at the end of Abū al-ʿAbbās's caliphate or the beginning of Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate
   ابْنِ خُثَيْمٍصدوق
   عن
3. 3
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm

   trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AH
   إِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد

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