English translation
3368. Narrated 'Aishah رضي الله عنها the wife of the Prophet ﷺ: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said (to her). "Don't you see that when your folk built the Ka'bah, they did not build it on all the foundations built by Ibrāhīm (Abraham)?" I said, "O Allāh's Messenger! Why don't we rebuild it on the foundations of Ibrāhīm?" He said, "But for the fact that your folk have recently given up infidelity(1) (I would have done so)." Narrated Ibn 'Umar رضي الله عنهما: "Aishah must have heard this from Allāh's Messenger ﷺ for I see that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ used not to touch the two corners facing Al-Hijr only because the House (the Ka'bah) had not been built on the foundations of Ibrāhīm."
