Why the Kaaba was not rebuilt on Ibrahim's foundations
[AI] that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her: "Do you not see that when your people built the Kaaba, they fell short of the foundations of Ibrahim?" I said, "O Messenger of Allah, will you not restore it to the foundations of Ibrahim?" He said: "Were it not for your people's recent state of disbelief, I would have done so." Then Abdullah ᴿᴬ said, "If Aishah ᴿᴬ heard this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I do not think the Messenger of Allah ﷺ left touching the two corners that are next to the Hijr except because the House was not completed upon the foundations of Ibrahim."
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَهَا: «أَلَمْ تَرَىْ أَنَّ قَوْمَكِ لَمَّا بَنَوُا الْكَعْبَةَ اقْتَصَرُوا عَنْ قَوَاعِدِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ؟» فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، أَلَا تَرُدُّهَا عَلَى قَوَاعِدِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ؟ قَالَ: «لَوْلَا حِدْثَانُ قَوْمِكِ بِالْكُفْرِ لَفَعَلْتُ». فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ؓ: لَئِنْ كَانَتْ عَائِشَةُ ؓ سَمِعَتْ هَذَا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، مَا أُرَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ تَرَكَ اسْتِلَامَ الرُّكْنَيْنِ اللَّذَيْنِ يَلِيَانِ الْحِجْرَ إِلَّا أَنَّ الْبَيْتَ لَمْ يُتَمَّمْ عَلَى قَوَاعِدِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ.
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