Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Haram was placed two thousand years before the earth, and the earth was spread out from beneath it. Mujahid says: Allah Almighty has said: "So make the hearts of some people incline towards them." Mujahid says: Had Allah Almighty said "the hearts of the people", then the people of Persia and the Romans too would have crowded around it.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب الحج / 5728