Ibn ʿUmar. said, "I have never missed the touching of these two stones of Kaʿba (the Black Stone and the Yemenite Corner) both in the presence and the absence of crowds, since I saw the Prophet ﷺ touching them." I asked Nafiʿ: "Did Ibn ʿUmar use to walk between the two Corners?" Nafiʿ replied, "He used to walk in order that it might be easy for him to touch it (the Corner Stone)."  

مَا تَرَكْتُ اسْتِلاَمَ هَذَيْنِ الرُّكْنَيْنِ فِي شِدَّةٍ وَلاَ رَخَاءٍ مُنْذُ رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَسْتَلِمُهُمَا قُلْتُ لِنَافِعٍ أَكَانَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ يَمْشِي بَيْنَ الرُّكْنَيْنِ قَالَ إِنَّمَا كَانَ يَمْشِي لِيَكُونَ أَيْسَرَ لاِسْتِلاَمِهِ  

Abu Ash-Sha'tha said, "Who keeps away from some portion of the Ka'bah?" Mu'awiya used to touch the four corners of the Ka'bah, Ibn 'Abbas said to him, "These two corners (the one facing the Hijr) are not to be touched." Mu'awiya said, "Nothing is untouchable in the Ka'bah." And Ibn Az-Zubair used to touch all the corners of the Ka'bah.  

أَنَّهُ قَالَ وَمَنْ يَتَّقِي شَيْئًا مِنَ الْبَيْتِ وَكَانَ مُعَاوِيَةُ يَسْتَلِمُ الأَرْكَانَ فَقَالَ لَهُ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ إِنَّهُ لاَ يُسْتَلَمُ هَذَانِ الرُّكْنَانِ فَقَالَ لَيْسَ شَىْءٌ مِنَ الْبَيْتِ مَهْجُورًا وَكَانَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ ؓ يَسْتَلِمُهُنَّ كُلَّهُنَّ