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...of the age of Ibrahim. Abd al-Muttalib, as custodian of the Ka'bah and provider of water to pilgrims (siqaya), felt the absenc...
...s were cast and the lot fell on him to be sacrificed at the Ka'bah in fulfillment of his father's vow; he was redeemed only af...
...rab pilgrimage traffic there, breaking the dominance of the Ka'bah. When a man from Kinanah defiled the cathedral in protest, ...
...lity of spirit. His father had nearly sacrificed him at the Ka'bah before the oracle's ruling led to his redemption by one hun...
...e him Muhammad." Abd al-Muttalib carried the newborn to the Ka'bah, prayed, and announced the name — unusual in Arabia, chosen...
...extraordinary influence: chief of Quraysh, custodian of the Ka'bah, discoverer of Zamzam, the man who stood before Abraha's el...
...They gathered, dipped their hands in water used to wash the Ka'bah as a solemn oath before Allah, and pledged: "We shall stand...
...revelation — when the Prophet ﷺ was about thirty-five — the Ka'bah in Mecca was damaged by flood and fire, and the Quraysh und...
...gh for a person to lie down, facing in the direction of the Ka'bah. The Prophet ﷺ would spend the entire month of Ramadan ther...
...early and whose house on the slope of al-Safa hill near the Ka'bah served as the center where the Prophet ﷺ would teach revela...
...rent. From that point, the Prophet ﷺ preached openly in the Ka'bah's courtyard and in the markets of Mecca — reciting Quran, c...
...al-Tufayl stuffed cotton in his ears before approaching the Ka'bah. Yet watching the Prophet ﷺ pray, he reconsidered: as a man...
...venth, reclining against the Bayt al-Ma'mur — the celestial Ka'bah circumambulated by seventy thousand angels daily. At Sidra...
...tiple dimensions of meaning: it asserted the primacy of the Ka'bah, built by Ibrahim and Ismail as the first house of monothei...