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Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Ibn Shihab say that he had heard one of the people of knowledge say that the Hijr was only enclosed so that people would go beyond it as they were making tawaf, and their tawaf would therefore encompass the original House

وحدثني عن مالك، انه سمع ابن شهاب، يقول سمعت بعض، علماينا يقول ما حجر الحجر فطاف الناس من ورايه الا ارادة ان يستوعب الناس الطواف بالبيت كله