\n (Al-Sadooq) Narrated from Ali Bin Hatim from Al-Qasim Bin...

\n (Al-Sadooq) Narrated from Ali Bin Hatim from Al-Qasim Bin Muhammad from Hamdan Bin Al-Husayn from Al-Husayn Bin Al-Waleed from Abu Bakr from Hannan Bin Sudeyr from Abu Hamza Al-Thumaly: \n \u2018Ali -asws Bin Al-Husayn -asws said when he -asws was asked: ‘Why is he performing Tawaaf seven times? ‘ He -asws said: ‘Because Allah -azwj Blessed and High Said to the Angels “I am going to place in the earth a Caliph” they retorted to Allah -azwj Blessed the High “they said: What!

Will You place in it such as shall make mischief in it and shed blood, and we celebrate Your Praise and extol Your Holiness?” And they had not been Veiled from His -azwj Light for seven thousand years, they sought to be excused for seven thousand years, He -azwj was Merciful to them and Turned to them, and Made for them the Bayt Al-Mamoor which is located on the fourth Heaven , and Modelled for mankind the Bayt Al-Haram (Kabah) beneath the Bayt Al-Mamoor , a resort and a sanctuary.

The \u2018Tawaf\u2019 (circumambulation) is for seven runs obligatory for the servants, one run for each of the thousand years (of the Angels) ‘.