The Kaaba is God's house in Mecca; Ibrahim and his son Isma'il raised its foundations, and the house's custody passed through Isma'il's descendants, then Jurhum, then Khuza'a, then Quraysh. People have made pilgrimage to it through the ages, and on the day of the Opening the Prophet ﷺ had three hundred and sixty idols removed from around it.
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The Kaaba
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The Kaaba: the house whose foundations Ibrahim and Isma'il raised. Ibrahim settled Hajar and her child in a barren valley beside the site of the house, which was then a rise in the ground like a hillock, floods passing right and left of it; on his third journey the two built the Kaaba and raised its foundations. Isma'il held the leadership of Mecca and the house's custody all his life; it then passed to Jurhum for about twenty centuries, to Khuza'a for three hundred years, then to Qusayy and Quraysh from about 440 CE. The polytheists filled the Sacred Mosque with idols until the Prophet ﷺ found three hundred and sixty around the house on the day of the Opening, taken out and burned. When Jurhum was expelled, Amr ibn al-Harith buried the Kaaba's two gazelles and the Black Stone's stone in the well of Zamzam; the Kaaba's custodianship was one of Qusayy's five offices, passing then to Banu Abd al-Dar.
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