Narrated 'Aisha: Allah's Apostle said to me, "Were your people not close to the Pre-lslamic period of ignorance, I would have demolished the Ka'ba and would have rebuilt it on its original foundations laid by Abraham (for Quraish had curtailed its building), and I would have built a back door (too)."
— Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 26: Pilgrimmage (Hajj), Hadith #655
Narrated 'Aisha: Allah's Apostle said to me, "Were your people not close to the Pre-lslamic period of ignorance, I would have demolished the Ka'ba and would have rebuilt it on its original foundations laid by Abraham (for Quraish had curtailed its building), and I would have built a back door (too)."
This hadith is from the book of Pilgrimmage (Hajj) in Sahih Bukhari, compiled by Imam al-Bukhari. It is hadith number 655 in book 26 of volume 2.
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