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Al-Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, vol. 1, p. 165
Baqum al-Rumi said to [the Quraysh]: “Do you want the roof [of the Kaaba] pitched or flat?” “Rather build the house of our Lord (rabb) flat.” He [apparently al-Azraqi’s grandfather, Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Azraqi] said: “So they built it flat and they put in it six columns in two rows: in each row were three columns from the northeast corner where is the [Black] Stone, to the southwest corner, and they made its external height from the ground to its summit eighteen cubits high, and previously [the pre-Quraysh Kaaba] had been nine cubits high. The Quraysh added another nine cubits to the upper part, and they built it from the top to the bottom with courses of stone and courses of wood, and fifteen courses were of wood and sixteen courses were of stone, and they fixed its water-spout that pours forth [water] in stone, and they placed wooden steps inside it at the corner to ascend by them to its rear, and they decorated its ceiling and its internal wall surfaces and its columns, and they put on its columns pictures of the Prophets, pictures of trees, and pictures of the angels and there was a picture of the Prophet Abraham with divining arrows, and a picture of Isa b. Maryam and his mother [i.e., Jesus and Mary] and a picture of the angels, upon them be peace, all of them. And when it was the day of the conquest of Mecca, the Prophet (peace be upon him) entered, and he sent off al-Fadl b. al-{Abbas b. {Abd al-Muttalib (his cousin) to come with water from [the well of] Zamzam. Then he called for a cloth, and he ordered [them] to rub off these pictures, and they were obliterated.
al-Azraqi states that on the day of the Islamic conquest of Mecca, the Prophet ordered that the pictures in the Kaaba should be destroyed, but
several sources also cited by al-Azraqi record that the painting showing Isa b. Maryam and his mother was spared on the Prophet’s instructions:
Al-Azraqi, Kitab Akhbar Makka, vol. 1, p. 167
Sulayman [b. Musa al-Shami] said to [{Ata} b. Abi Rabah]: “The pictures of the representations of devils (idols) that were in the House [i.e., the Kaaba], who obliterated them?” He said: “I do not know, other than that they were obliterated, with the exception of those two pictures [Isa b. Maryam and Maryam]. I saw them [i.e., the rest] and their obliteration.” Ibn Jurayj said: “Then returned to the sketch of the six columns that he had drawn in plan. Then he said: ‘The representation of Isa and his mother, upon them be peace, was in the middle of the row that was in front of the door that we came through when we entered [the Kaaba].’” My grandfather
[Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Azraqº] said: “Da'ud b. {Abd al-Rahman told me that Amr b. Dinar said: ‘A [picture] of Isa b. Maryam and his mother was set in the interior of the Kaaba before the destruction of the idols.’”