Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 4-700b

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"On the authority of Khalid ibn 'Ar'arah, he said: 'Ali said: Ask me whatever you wish, and do not ask me except about what benefits or harms. A man said: O Commander of the Faithful, what are 'adh-Dhariyat dharwa'? He said: Woe to you, did I not tell you not to ask except about what benefits or harms? Those are the winds. He said: What are 'al-hamilat wiqra'? 'Ali said: The clouds. He said: What are 'al-jariyat yusra'? He said: Those are the ships. He said: What are 'al-muqassimat amra'? He said: Those are the angels. He said: What are 'al-jawari al-kunnas'? He said: The stars. He said: What is the raised ceiling? He said: The sky. He said: What is the inhabited house? He said: A house in the sky called ad-Durah, which is directly above the Ka'bah. Its sanctity in the sky is like the sanctity of the House on earth. Seventy thousand angels pray in it every day, and they never return to it. A man said to him: O Commander of the Faithful, tell me about this House. Is it the first house placed for the people? If houses existed before it, and Noah lived in houses, [then tell me about it]. But it is the first house placed for the people, blessed and a guidance for the worlds. He said: Then tell me about its construction. He said: Allah revealed to Ibrahim, peace be upon him, that he should build a house. Ibrahim circumambulated and supplicated, so Allah sent a wind called as-Sakinah, and it is also called al-Hamuh. It has two eyes and a head. Allah revealed to Ibrahim that he should travel when it travels and rest when it rests. It travelled until it reached the site of the House, and it encircled it like a shield, and it was opposite the inhabited house. Seventy thousand angels enter it every day, and they do not return to it until the Day of Resurrection. Ibrahim and Isma'il began building it, a course each day. When the heat became severe on them, they sheltered in the shade of the mountain. When they reached the place of the Stone, Ibrahim said to Isma'il: Bring me a stone that I may place it as a sign for the people. Isma'il faced the valley and brought him a stone, but Ibrahim considered it too small and threw it away, and said: Bring me another. Isma'il went off, and Jibril descended to Ibrahim with the Black Stone. Isma'il came back, and Ibrahim said to him: Someone who did not leave me reliant on your stone has come to me. So he built the House, and they circumambulated around it and prayed until they died and passed away. Then the House collapsed, and the Amalekites built it, and they circumambulated it until they died and passed away. Then the House collapsed, and Quraysh built it. When they reached the place of the Stone, they disagreed about placing it. They said: Whoever comes out first through the gate. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out first, and they said: The trustworthy one has come out. He spread a cloth, placed the Stone in its middle, and confirmed the tribes of Quraysh. Each tribe took a side of the cloth, and he placed it with his own hand ﷺ."

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