Al-Kafi 6764

Translation

Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far^asws, ‘Did you^asws meet Al-Husayn^asws?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes. I^asws remember him^asws, and I^asws was with him^asws in the Sacred Masjid, and the flood had entered into it, and the people were standing upon the Standing Place (of Ibrahim^as). Someone coming out was saying, ‘The flood has swept it away’, and someone coming out was saying, ‘It is (still) in its place’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So he^asws said to me: ‘O so and so! What are they making of it?’ So I said, ‘May Allah^azwj Keep you^asws well! They are fearing that the torrent may have swept away the Standing Place (of Ibrahim^as)’. So he^aswssaid: ‘Announce that Allah^azwj the Exalted has Made it as a flag, it cannot happen that it would be gone away with, therefore, be calm. And the place of the Standing Place (of Ibrahim^as) is that which Ibrahim^as had placed it by the wall of the House. So it did not cease to be over there until the people of the Pre-Islamic period transferred it to the place in which it is in today. So when the Prophet^saww conquered Makkah, he^saww returned it to the place where Ibrahim^as had (originally) placed it. So it did not cease to be over there until the rule of Umar Bin Al-Khattab. So he asked, ‘Who are the ones from you who recognise the place which the Standing Place (of Ibrahim^as) used to be in?’ So a man said, ‘I do. I had taken its measurement with a belt, so it is with me’. So he said, ‘Come to me with it’. So he went to him with it. So he (Umar) measured it, then returned it to that place (of the Pre-Islamic period)’.

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