Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, Made Makkah a Sacred Place When He Created the Skies and Earth َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ النُّعْ٠َانِ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ إِنَّ قُرَيْشاً لَ٠ُوا الْكَعْبَةَ وَجَدُوا فِي قَوَاعِدِهِ حَجَراً فِيهِ كِتَابٌ لَ٠ْ يُحْسِنُوا قِرَاءَتَهُ حَتَّى دَعَوْا رَجُلاً فَقَرَأَهُ فَإِذَا فِيهِ أَنَا الله ذُو بَكَّةَ حَرَّ٠َ خَلَقْتُ السَّ٠َاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ وَوَضَعْتُهَا بَيْنَ هَذَيْنِ الْجَبَلَيْنِ وَحَفَفْتُهَا بِسَبْعَةِ أَ٠1.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn al-Nu’aman from Sa‘id al-’A‘raj who has said the following: “Abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that when Quraysh demolished al-Ka‘bah, they found in its foundations a stone with a writing on it which could not be read properly. They found a man who was able to read and this was written on it, ‘I am Allah, owner of Bakkah, which I made sacred on the day I created the skies and earth.

I placed it between these two hills and made seven angels to guard it.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/68))