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Ibrahim ordered his son Ismael – who in Muslim belief is an ancestor of Muhammad – to build a new temple, the Kaaba, into which the stone was to be embedded. Another tradition says that the Black Stone was originally an angel that had been placed by God in the Garden of Eden to guard Adam.
According to Islam, the Kaaba was rebuilt several times throughout history, most famously by Ibrahim and his son Ismail, when he returned to the valley of Mecca several years after leaving his wife Hajar (Hagar) and Ismail there upon Allah 's command.
The Kaaba has been destroyed, damaged, and subsequently rebuilt several times since. In 930 the Black Stone itself was carried away by an extreme Shiʿi sect known as the Qarmatians and held almost 20 years for ransom. During Muhammad’s early ministry, the Kaaba was the qiblah, or direction of prayer, for the Muslim community.
The Kaaba was a sanctuary in pre-Islamic times. Muslims believe that Abraham (known as Ibrahim in the Islamic tradition), and his son, Ismail, constructed the Kaaba. Tradition holds that it was originally a simple unroofed rectangular structure.
The Quraysh tribe who ruled Makkah then re-built the Ka’aba in 608 CE with wood and stone. When Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was then forced out of Makkah in 620 CE, upon his return in 629/30 CE, he removed the idols housed in the Ka’aba, however keeping the Black Stone inside that was given to Prophet Ibrahim by the Angel Jibreel.
27 maj 2024 · The scholars of Islam have differed on who built the Kabah. Some say that it was built by the angels. Others say the father of humankind, Adam built the Ka’bah but over many centuries it fell into disrepair and was lost in the mists of time, to be rebuilt by Prophet Abraham and his son Ishmael.
28 wrz 2024 · Black Stone of Mecca, Muslim object of veneration, built into the eastern wall of the Kaʿbah (small shrine within the Great Mosque of Mecca) and probably dating from the pre-Islamic religion of the Arabs. It now consists of three large pieces and some fragments, surrounded by a stone ring and held.
