Aisha, the wife of Allahs Apostle ﷺ , reported Allahs Messenger ﷺ as having said this: Didnt you see that when your people built the Ka’bah, they reduced its area with the result that it no longer remains on the foundations (laid) by Ibrahim. I said: Messenger of Allah, why dont you rebuild it on the foundations (laid by) Ibrahim? Thereupon Allahs Messenger ﷺ said: Had your people not been new converts to Islam, I would have done that. Abdullah bin Umar (RA) said: If Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) had heard it from Allahs Messenger ﷺ , I would not have seen Allahs Messenger ﷺ abandoning the touching of the two corners situated near al-Hijr, but (for the fact) that it was not completed on the foundations (laid) by Ibrahim.