8ـ وَرُوِيَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ كَانَ طُولُ الْكَعْبَةِ يَوْمَئِذٍ تِسْعَةَ أَذْرُعٍ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهَا سَقْفٌ فَسَقَّفَهَا قُرَيْشٌ ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ ذِرَاعاً فَلَمْ تَزَلْ ثُمَّ كَسَرَهَا الْحَجَّاجُ عَلَى ابْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ فَبَنَاهَا وَجَعَلَهَا سَبْعَةً وَعِشْرِينَ ذِرَاعاً.
8. It is narrated from ibn abu Nasr from Aban ibn ‘Uthman who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that the height of al-Ka‘bah in those days was nine yards and it did not have a roof. Quraysh made a roof for it with height of eighteen yards, with which it remained until Hajjaj destroyed it on (during his fight with) ibn al-Zubayr. He rebuilt it and made it twenty-seven yards high.’”