Ibn Jarīr (1) states: “In this very year ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr rebuilt the Kaʿbah, the Sacred House—that is, he completed its structure, incorporated within it the al-Ḥijr (the semi-circular enclosure), and fixed for it two doors, one for entering and the other for exiting.”

Ibn Jarīr continues: “Isḥāq ibn Abī Isrāʾīl related to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Khālid ibn Rustum al-Ṣanʿānī Abū Muḥammad related to me; Ziyād ibn Jabal related to me: He said, ‘I was in Mecca during the period when Ibn al-Zubayr held authority there, and I heard him say:
“My mother, Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr, told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to ʿĀʾishah:
‘Were it not that your people have only recently left disbelief, I would return the Kaʿbah to the foundations of Abraham and I would add to the Kaʿbah from the al-Ḥijr.’”
He (Ziyād) said: So Ibn al-Zubayr ordered that it be excavated. They dug and came upon protuberances like the humps of camels; they tried to unsettle one protuberance—or, he said, a rock—whereupon a flash of lightning appeared. Ibn al-Zubayr said, “Leave it upon its foundation,” and then he rebuilt the Kaʿbah, giving it two doors: people would enter through one and exit through the other.’”

I say: This ḥadīth has multiple chains of transmission from ʿĀʾishah in the Ṣaḥīḥ collections, the ḥasan compilations, and the Musnads (3). The detailed discussion of these chains will be set forth, God willing, in the book al-Aḥkām.

Ibn Jarīr (4) also records for this year a series of battles that took place between ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khāzim in Khurāsān and al-Ḥarīsh ibn Hilāl al-Quraʿī (5); their particulars are too lengthy to rehearse here.

He adds: “The leader of the pilgrimage that year was ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr. Over Madinah was Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr, over Kūfah ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muṭīʿ, and over Basra al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Rabīʿah al-Makhzūmī [nicknamed Qubāʿ].”

Al-Wāqidī says: “Among the notable figures who died in that year was ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil, Abū Muḥammad al-Sahmī (6). He was one of the finest of the Companions, distinguished for his knowledge and devotion. He wrote down many reports from the Prophet ﷺ. He embraced Islam before his father and was only twelve years younger than him, and he was…"