The rebuilding of the Kaaba
إعادة بناء الكعبة وقضية الحجر الأسود
c. 605 CE
Quraysh's rebuilding of the Kaaba when Muhammad was thirty-five — a flood-weakened structure rebuilt with 'lawful money only' — and the arbitration over the Black Stone that he settled with the cloak solution.
Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
ArchitectureSacred space and pilgrimage
Connections
- Occurred at
- Mecca
- Had participant
- Muhammadal-Walid ibn al-MughiraAbu Umayya ibn al-Mughiraal-Abbas ibn Abd al-MuttalibBaqum
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
People and things also explored
The Battle of HunaynThe boycott of the Banu HashimThe Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)The Pledges of AqabaThe Fulfilled Umrah (Umrat al-Qada)MeccaThe three years of the secret callThe Battle of Badr
Sources
- Ibn Ishaq / Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad (1955)
- Watt, Muhammad at Mecca (1953)
- Lings, Muhammad (1983)
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
- Sahih al-Bukhari
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The rebuilding of the Kaaba”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/rebuilding-of-the-kaaba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.