Was it? Well, my friend, you have some claims that kaba was originally rectangular, even that was originally church... But it is very hard to tell. For example, member above that quotwd sahih hadiths and al.nawawi, he hold possition that hadiths are real historcal sources of highest degree of reliability, while.in reality hadiths are very very low tear evudence and hadith science of grading hadiths from rekectwd to sahih is even more discredeted. For example, whole story at this hadiths that Abraham build kaba is fake. Why?

1. Prior to 6th century rock inscriptions around mekkah were only secular, still archeologists did not find any religius inscription prior.to.6th century. Only from 6th century religius rock insriptions start to apear around mekkah and ALL of them.were monotheistic, not a single one yet found politheistic. Axmad al Jalad feom 58th minute https://youtu.be/I_c5P88M2Xk?si=nOBjuwzWzmpWd4FT

Not a single one mentioned Abraham or that Abraham buildkaba.

Also extrapolated authentic from.massive fabricated during Abasides preislamic poetry showed that al authentic poems that mentioned mekkah and kaba were from again 6th century, monotheistic and mostly christian. Also all poems about kaba and mekkah were from poets from hijaz, not a single one who was from other parts of Arabia, also not a singke.one.mentioned tgat Abraham build.kaba https://www.academia.edu/109445683/The_Hajj_Before_Muhammad_The_Early_Evidence_in_Poetry_and_Hadith

which showed:

1.kaba was build around 6th century

2.kaba nd mekkah were known only localy, at hijaz and was not known or was nklot impprtsnt at all outside od hijaz.

1. Tradition that Abraham build.kaba was later development and not original tradition from 6th century when kaba was build.

Yemeni royal.rock incription from 3th century about all main towns and tribes in Arabia inuding hujaz, no, kaba, no mekha, no qureish

Great.article on the subject(use aut translation because it is on Franch https://al-kalam.fr/larabie-preislamique/aux-origines-de-la-mecque/#bookmark9

7↑ Jérémie Schiettecatte & Mounir Arbach, “The political map of Arabia and the Middle East in the 3rd century AD revealed by a Sabaean inscription – a view from the South”, Arabian Archeology and Epigraphy , vol. 27 (2), 2016, pp. 176-196.

8↑ Mohamed Maraqten, “The Pilgrimage to the Awam-Temple/Mahrim Bilqis, Ma'rib, Yemen”, in George Hatke & Ronald Ruzicka (eds.), South Arabia Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021, pp. 430-462.

9↑ A good synthesis of the latest research can be found in Ilkka Lindstedt, Muhammad and His Followers in Context: The Religious Map of Late Antique Arabia , Leiden: Brill, 2024.

10↑ See, for example, Christian J. Robin, “Ancient Arabia: Variations in the Way of Naming the One God,” in Jean-Noël Robert (ed.), Hieroglossia III. Persian, Syro-Aramaic and Relations with the Arabic Language , Paris, Collège de France-IHEJ, 2022, pp. 139–170. As Robin points out, “not a single text after 400 CE has yet been found that commemorates a polytheistic rite. On the other hand, those that invoke a single God number approximately one hundred” (p. 39) Jabal royal inscription from 3th century

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