Holy Prophet of Islam - Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa — Page 52
The Holy Prophet of Islam, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa sa ra. Khadijah was forty. They had six children - two boys and four girls. Both sons, Qāsim and ‘Abdullah had passed away before his prophethood but the daughters, Zainab", Ruqayyah", Ummi Kulthūm and Fatimah" lived into Islām and embraced it. ra га (Sirah Ibne Hisham, Biography of the Prophet, Abridged by ‘Abdus Salam. Harūn, pp. 37-38, Al-Falaḥ Foundation, Cairo, Egypt). Rebuilding (Ka'bah) of the Sacred House of Allah. The Ka'bah had been damaged due to heavy rains and floods. It needed urgent repair. Four tribes of the Quraish divided the repair work among themselves. The walls were raised to the point where Hajr-e-Aswad was to be placed. The black stone was regarded as very sacred by the. Meccans. Thus, it was considered a matter of pride and honor for a tribe to place the Hajr-e-Aswad in the Ka'bah. Therefore, the right to place the. Hajr-e-Aswad in the Ka'bah became a bone of contention among the tribes who were involved in the reconstruction of the Ka'bah. To defuse the conflict and to avoid bloodshed, Abū Umayyah proposed that the first man who entered the gate of the Ka'bah the next morning suggest a solution to the dispute among the tribes. The next day, the first person to enter the gate of the Ka'bah was Muhammad". Everyone was pleased to know that and shouted, "He is Muḥammad, he is Al-Amin (the trustworthy). " So they asked Muḥammad" to decide the matter. sa. Muhammad said, "Give me a cloak. " He spread the cloak on the ground and placed the Hajr-e-Aswad at the center of the cloak and said, "Let the elders of each clan hold on to one corner of the cloak and raise the cloak to the level where Hajr-e-Aswad is to be placed. " When this was done, Muḥammad" picked up the stone and placed it in its place in the wall of the Ka'bah. In this way, he defused a serious disagreement among the tribes and a bloody civil war was avoided. 52