English Translation

Abu Kamil told us: Zuhayr told us: Abu Ishaq told us, from al-Aswad, who said: Ibn al-Zubayr said to me: "Tell me some of what the Mother of the Believers used to confide to you, for there was many a thing she told you that she concealed from the people." I said: "She indeed told me a hadith of which I remember only its beginning." She said: the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Were it not that your people had only recently left the age of ignorance" - or he said disbelief - Ibn al-Zubayr says: "I would have torn down the Ka'bah and made for it two doors at ground level, a door to enter by and a door to exit by." Abu Ishaq said: I indeed saw it built like that.