Hadith 6575

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Salim ibnAbdullah that Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakras-Siddiq toldAbdullah ibn Umar from A'isha, that the Prophet, may Allah bless himand grant him peace, said, "Don't you see that when your people builtthe Kaba they fell short of the foundations of Ibrahim?" A'isha said,"Messenger of Allah, won't you return it to the foundations ofIbrahim?" and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and granthim peace, said, "If it were not that your people have only recentlyleft kufr, I would have done so."Salim ibn Abdullah saidthat Abdullah ibn Umar said, "If A'isha heard this from the Messengerof Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, then I considerthat the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,only refrained from greeting the two corners which are adjacent to theHijr because the House had not been completed on the foundations ofIbrahim." (i.e. the corners he did not touch were not the originalcorners of the Kaba) .