of Ishmael. Had she left Zamzam—had she not scooped its water into her pouch—it would have burst forth as a free-flowing spring.

He added, “So she drank from it and nursed her child. Then the angel said to her, ‘Do not fear being lost, for here is the House of Allah. This boy and his father will raise it, and Allah never abandons His own.’

“At that time the House stood above the ground like a small hill; the floodwaters would come and pass it on the right and on the left.” Ibn ʿAbbās mentioned the rest of the narration.