وَعَنْهَا أَيْضًا 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 الْحِجْرِ سِتَّةَ أَذْرُعٍ، فَإِنَّ قُرَيْشًا اقْتَصَرَتْهَا حِينَ بَنَتِ الْكَعْبَةَ))
Narrated by Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: If your people had not recently abandoned polytheism or ignorance, I would have demolished the Ka'bah and joined it with the ground, and I would have made two doors for it, one on the east side and the other on the west side, and I would have included a space of six cubits from the Hatim into the House of Allah. The fact is that when the Quraysh built it, due to lack of resources, they could not complete its full construction.