حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَقَ عَنْ الْأَسْوَدِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ أَنَّ ابْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ قَالَ لَهُ حَدِّثْنِي بِمَا کَانَتْ تُفْضِي إِلَيْکَ أُمُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَعْنِي عَائِشَةَ فَقَالَ حَدَّثَتْنِي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ لَهَا لَوْلَا أَنَّ قَوْمَکِ حَدِيثُو عَهْدٍ بِالْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَهَدَمْتُ الْکَعْبَةَ وَجَعَلْتُ لَهَا بَابَيْنِ قَالَ فَلَمَّا مَلَکَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ هَدَمَهَا وَجَعَلَ لَهَا بَابَيْنِ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَی هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
جامع ترمذی · Hadith 875
Al-Aswad bin Yazid narrated that: Ibn Az-Zubair said to him: Narrated to me from what the Mother of the Believers used to (secretly) inform you about - meaning Aishah - so he said: She narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah said: 'Had your people not been still close to the pre-Islamic period of ignorance, then I would demolish the Ka'bah and rebuild it with two doors.' He said: So when Ibn Az-Zubair came to power he demolished it and rebuilt it with two doors.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020