People reported to be born in the Kaaba

This is a subarticle to reports of unusual religious childbirths and Kaaba

Kaaba

The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam. The Qur'an states that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham, or Ibraheem, in Arabic, and his son Ishmael, or Ismaeel, as said in Arabic, after he had settled in Arabia. The building has a mosque...

Muslim

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sources report of an early Muslim being born in the Kaaba

Kaaba

, the cubical structure that is the focus of a Muslim's daily prayers and the holiest structure in Islam.

Introduction

The reports differ in nature. Some report that the birth happened within the premises of the Kaaba, while others report of a birth being made inside it.

The reports are extraordinary in nature, due to the perceived holiness of the place; however, Shi'as believe that Ali was the only person born there at the time of Muhammad

Muhammad

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The events could gain some credibility considering that the Kaaba have undergone many renovations.

Nuru'd-din Bin Sabbagh Maliki in his Fusulu'l- Muhimma, Fasl I, p.14:

"No one before Ali was born in the Ka'ba. This was a distinction given to Ali in order to enhance his honor, rank, and dignity." http://www.muziqpakistan.com/board/index.php?showtopic=4983

Masudi, writes on page 76 of Volume II of his book, Murooj-udh-Dhahab (The Golden Meadows), that one of the greatest distinctions that Ali enjoyed was that he was born in the House of Allah

1.Muhammad ibn Talha el-Shafei in Matalib-us-saool, page 11.

2.Hakim in Mustadrak, page 483, Vol. III.

3.El-Umari in Sharh Ainia, page 15.

4.Halabi in Sira, page 165, Vol. I.

5.Sibt ibn al-Jauzi in Tadhkera Khawasil Ummah, page 7.

6.Ibn Sabbagh Maleki in Fusoolul Mohimma, page 14.

7.Muhammad bin Yousuf Shafei in Kifayet al-Talib, page 261.

8.Shablanji in Nurul Absar, page 76.

9.Ibn Zahra in Ghiyathul Ikhtisar, page 97.

10. Edvi in Nafhatul Qudsia, page 41.

Among the modern historians, Abbas Mahmood al-Akkad of Egypt writes in his book Al-'Abqarriyet al-Imam Ali, (Cairo, 1970), that Ali ibn Abi Talib was born inside the Kaaba.

Another contemporary historian, Mahmood Saeed al-Tantawi, of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Arab Republic of Egypt, writes on page 186 of his book, Min Fada-il al-‘Ashrat al-Mubashireen bil Janna, published in 1976 by Matab’a al-Ahram at-Tijariyya, Cairo, Egypt:

"May God have mercy upon Ali ibn Abi Talib. He was born in the Kaaba. He witnessed the rise of Islam; he witnessed the Da’wa of Muhammad, and he was a witness of the Wahi (Revelation of Al-Qur’an al-Majid). He immediately accepted Islam even though he was still a child, and he fought all his life so that the Word of Allah would be supreme."

An Arab poet composed the following distich on the birth of Ali:

He (Ali) is the one for whom the House of Allah was turned into a maternity home; And he is the one who threw the idols out of that House; Ali was the first and the last child ever to be born in the Kaaba.

The following are excerpts from the book 'Hadrat Ali, r. a.'
by Prof. Masud-ul-Hasan.

Birth of Hadrat Ali
Hadrat Ali was born in unusual circumstances. On the 13 th day of the holy month of Rajab, Fatima, the mother of Hadrat Ali, visited the Ka'bah to perform the pilgrimage. During the course of the pilgrimage and while circumambulating the Ka'bah, Fatima felt the pangs of childbirth. She retired to a secluded place in the precincts of the holy Ka'bah, and there Hadrat Ali was born. Hadrat Ali has thus had the unique honour to be born in the House of God. This unparalleled honour had endowed Hadrat Ali with a halo of sanctity that has become the subject of many legends. A hundred years later, Zain-ul-Abidin, a grandson of Ali (son of Hadrat Hussein), met an Arab woman at Najaf who told him that her grandmother had helped Fatima on the occasion of Hadrat Ali's birth. She narrated that according to the account of her grandmother, the child was beautiful; a smile played on his lips; he did not cry like other
children; and his birth did not cause any pain to his mother.

Sunni Online biographies of Ali

however, some other biographies make no mention of his birth place of:

anwary-islam.com

Shi'a

This narration is regarded as authentic by all Shia scholars and viewed as a greater honor for Ali. The Shi'a narration depicts a miracle, the wall of the Kaaba opening miraculously, allowing Ali's mother to enter. She is said to have spent three days there.

Islamically when a woman gives birth to a child she is not supposed to pray untill she stops bleeding but no longer than 10 days,after which praying is cumpulsary. But when fatima gave birth to Hussein, she prayed on the same day. All of this is taken as signs of the purity of the Ahl al-Bayt, as told in the Hadith of the Cloak.

Sources:
It is widely publicized in numerous Shi'a biographies.

Non-Muslim

The non-Muslim scholar Simon Ockley

Simon Ockley

Simon Ockley was a British Orientalist.-Biography:Ockley was born at Exeter. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1697, MA. in 1701, and B.D. in 1710. He became fellow of Jesus College and vicar of Swavesey, and in 1711 was chosen Adams Professor of Arabic in the...

retold it as a "strange" narration in his History of the Saracens

History of the Saracens

The History of the Saracen Empires is a book written by Simon Ockley of Cambridge University and first published in the early 18th century. The book has been reprinted many times including at London in 1894...

page 331.

Hakim

The other report, regarded as authentic by only Sunnis, states that the Sahaba

Sahaba

In Islam, the ' were the companions, disciples, scribes and family of the Islamic prophet...

Hakim ibn Hizam

Hakīm ibn Hizām is the principal narrator of a hadith that has become very important is the development of contract law in Muslim nations. His father was Hizam ibn Khuwaylid. Hizam was a merchant, who asked the prophet Mohammed whether it was permissible for him to sell to a customer goods that he...

, a rich Meccan convert to Islam

Islam

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, was born there.

Sunni

Sunni state in the Hakim biographies that Hakim was the only one being born in the Kaaba.

Sunni sources of Hakim

Imam Muslim in his Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim is one of the Six major collections of the hadith in Sunni Islam, oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is the second most authentic hadith collection after Sahih Al-Bukhari, and is highly acclaimed by Sunni Muslims...

10.3662, and is

Sunni Online biographies of Hakim

witness-pioneer.org:
Moula Ali Was the only.
anwary-islam.com:
History has recorded that he is the only person who was born inside the Kabah itself.

islamonline.com:

He is the only person in history who was born inside the Kabah itself

Shi'a

Shia believe Ali was the only one born inside the Kaaba

Kaaba

, and regard the Hakim narration a fabrication in order to trivialize the prestige attached to being born in the kaabah.

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