Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1206 — The boundaries of the Haram

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jubayr bin Mut'im (may Allah be pleased with him) that in the Days of Ignorance Quraysh found a stone at the Station of Ibrahim on which some writing was engraved. They would present this writing to every one of the People of the Book who came to them, but they were unable to read it, until a learned scholar from Yemen came to them and read the text out to them. In it was written: "I am Allah, the Lord of Bakkah [Al Imran: 96]. I made this city at the time when I created the sun and the moon, and I have decreed blessing for its inhabitants in meat and milk." And on the second side of the stone was written: "I am Allah, the Lord of Bakkah. I created the womb (kinship) and derived its name from My own name. So whoever joins it, I will join him (with My mercy), and whoever severs it, I will cut him off." And on its third side was inscribed: "I am Allah, the Lord of Bakkah. I created good and evil. So glad tidings to the one at whose hands good is made to flow, and woe to the one at whose hands evil is made to flow."