Uzi maalum wa kupeana Likes: Comment chochote upate "Like"

During the time of Abdullah b. Zubayr's rule over Makkah, the city was attacked twice by the Umayyads. In the first attack, in 64 AH, the Ka`bah caught fire and was severely damaged.

Ibn al-Zubayr was the first to order that the broken stones of the Ḥajr be placed in a case of silver ore to protect it, as it was damaged in this attack (again, sources are unclear but it is highly likely that the Ḥajr was broken again after Jurham's incident; it is also possible that it was broken for the first time).
 
The worst incident to ever occur to the Ḥajr was during the infamous raid of the Qarāmites, a break-away sect of the Isma`īlis, who attacked the Ka'bah in 317 AH (this is one of the most bizarre incidents in Islamic history - the well of Zamzam was filled with the dead bodies of the pilgrims and Ḥajj was stopped for a few years).
 
The leader of them, a certain Abu Ṭāhir al-Jannābī, climbed the Ka'ba, shouted out blasphemies, and broke the Ḥajr with an axe. This group hijacked the Ḥajr and installed it in a fake replica of the Ka'bah that they built in their province of al-Aḥṣā, where the Ḥajr remained for 22 years!
 
Finally, after a hefty ransom and the intervention of the Faṭimid empire, the Ḥajr was returned, cracked and broken, to Makkah.(Yes, for 22 years there was no Black Stone in the Ka'bah!) During this phase, the Ḥajr was completely shattered into bits and what was returned was various pebbles of the original, in a sack.

Fatimid Caliphate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org
 
It is now that the modern structure recognizable to us was born. A large ingot of silver and other precious metals was made, and around 15 remaining pieces of the Ḥajr, none of which was larger than two centimeters (0.7 inches), placed in the metal ingot.
 
Some of these pieces - perhaps around 8 - simple melded in and could not be seen anymore. Only around 7 of the larger pieces of the original remain, as seen in a hand-drawn diagram traced directly on top of the Ḥajr (below) in the year 1957 CE.

However, over the course of the last few decades, and in order to protect the Ḥajr, an extremely expensive mixture of frankincense, ambergris and other compounds is poured as an outer layer over the stone, so that the continual rubbing and kissing of the Ḥajr doesn't wear it out and so that it is protected with a layer. Hence, if you were to stand in front of the Ḥajr and had time to examine it (theoretically!), you would not actually be able to see the original stones of the Ḥajr; only the shapes are vaguely discernible.
 
During the time of King Abd al-Azīz in the 1950s, he ordered that a small sample be taken for a chemical examination; after the analysis, he himself placed it back into the ingot that it currently stands in. While the silver ingot is updated and cleansed and taken care of, the ingot itself has not been broken apart to expose the original pieces of the Ḥajr for many, many centuries.
 
Aiseee....
 
mycotoxin vyereje?

“Kuhusu hayo mahindi ambayo yamelala hapo mpakani (mwa Kenya na Tanzania), Waziri nakupa wiki mbili, yote iwe imefunguliwa (Malori yaruhusiwe kupita) na maneno yaishe, hakuna haja ya kuumiza Watu wetu jameni au ni namna gani?”———

Rais Kenyatta mbele ya Rais Samia kwenye Kongamano la Wafanyabiashara wa Kenya na Tanzania nchini Kenya leo
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…