Aisha reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said to her, “O Aisha, had your nation not recently left ignorance, I would have had the Ka’bah pulled down and rebuilt to include the portion which had been missing. I would have made it level with the ground, with two doors, one towards the east and the other towards the west. By doing so, it would have been upon the foundation laid by Abraham.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1509, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1333
Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi (authenticity agreed upon) according to Al-Bukhari and Muslim
Al-Nawawi said, “In this tradition is evidence for the legal principle of rulings, among them: If two benefits conflict with each other, or a benefit and a harm conflict with each other and it is not possible to reconcile between acting on a benefit or leaving a harm, the more important interest takes precedence. As the Prophet explained, pulling down the Ka’bah and restoring it as it was since the founding by Abraham, peace and blessings be upon him, is a benefit, but it conflicted with a greater harm, which was his fear of putting to trial some of those who had recently embraced Islam. That is because they believed in the virtue of the Ka’bah and would view changing it as a great sin, so the Prophet left it.”
Source: Sharḥ al-Nawawī ‘alá Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1333
عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ لَهَا يَا عَائِشَةُ لَوْلَا أَنَّ قَوْمَكِ حَدِيثُ عَهْدٍ بِجَاهِلِيَّةٍ لَأَمَرْتُ بِالْبَيْتِ فَهُدِمَ فَأَدْخَلْتُ فِيهِ مَا أُخْرِجَ مِنْهُ وَأَلْزَقْتُهُ بِالْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُ بَابَيْنِ بَابًا شَرْقِيًّا وَبَابًا غَرْبِيًّا فَبَلَغْتُ بِهِ أَسَاسَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ
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قال النووي وَفِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ دَلِيلٌ لِقَوَاعِدَ مِنَ الْأَحْكَامِ مِنْهَا إِذَا تَعَارَضَتِ الْمَصَالِحُ أَوْ تَعَارَضَتْ مَصْلَحَةٌ وَمَفْسَدَةٌ وَتَعَذَّرَ الْجَمْعُ بَيْنَ فِعْلِ الْمَصْلَحَةِ وَتَرْكِ الْمَفْسَدَةِ بُدِئَ بِالْأَهَمِّ لِأَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَخْبَرَ أَنَّ نَقْضَ الْكَعْبَةِ وَرَدَّهَا إِلَى مَا كَانَتْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ قَوَاعِدِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَصْلَحَةٌ وَلَكِنْ تُعَارِضُهُ مَفْسَدَةٌ أَعْظَمُ مِنْهُ وَهِيَ خَوْفُ فِتْنَةِ بَعْضِ مَنْ أَسْلَمَ قَرِيبًا وَذَلِكَ لِمَا كَانُوا يَعْتَقِدُونَهُ مِنْ فَضْلِ الْكَعْبَةِ فَيَرَوْنَ تَغْيِيرَهَا عَظِيمًا فَتَرَكَهَا صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
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