وإمّا أن يكون ابن الزّبير لم يردّ البيت على أساس إبراهيم مع جميع جهاته وإنّما فعل ذلك في الحجر فقط ليدخله فهي الآن مع كونها من بناء ابن الزّبير ليست على قواعد إبراهيم وهذا بعيد ولا محيص من هذين
The other alternative would be that Ibn az-Zubayr did not fully restore the House upon the foundations of Abraham. He would only have done this in the case of the hijr, so as to include it. (The Ka'bah) today, although built by Ibn az-Zubayr, would thus not be on the foundations of Abraham. This is unlikely. But it is one of the two possible alternatives