عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ مِينَاءَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا يَقُولُ حَدَّثَتْنِي خَالَتِي عَائِشَةُ أُمُّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ لَهَا ((لَوْلَا أَنَّ قَوْمَكِ حَدِيثُ عَهْدٍ بِشِرْكٍ أَوْ بِجَاهِلِيَّةٍ لَهَدَمْتُ الْكَعْبَةَ فَأَلْزَقْتُهَا بِالْأَرْضِ وَجَعَلْتُ لَهَا بَابَيْنِ بَابًا شَرْقِيًّا وَبَابًا غَرْبِيًّا وَزِدْتُ فِيهَا مِنَ الْحَجَرِ سِتَّةَ أَذْرُعٍ فَإِنَّ قُرَيْشًا اقْتَصَرَتْهَا حِينَ بَنَتِ الْكَعْبَةَ))
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with them both), he says: My maternal aunt, the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: If your people had not recently abandoned polytheism or the era of ignorance, I would have demolished the Ka'bah, brought its door level with the ground, and made two doors—one to the east and one to the west—and I would have added six cubits to it from the side of Hatim, because when the Quraysh rebuilt it, they had reduced its size.