The Prophet ﷺ said, "Do you not see that when your people rebuilt the Kaabah, they fell short of the foundations laid by Ibrahim?"Ayesha said, "I asked, 'Messenger of Allah, will you not restore it upon the foundations of Ibrahim?'"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, "Were it not that your people are so recently removed from disbelief, I would have done so."Abdullah bin Umar said, "If Ayesha indeed heard this from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, then I see that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ only refrained from touching the two corners adjoining the Hijr because the House had not been completed upon the foundations of Ibrahim."
أن النبي ﷺ قال: ألم تري أن قومك حين بنوا الكعبة اقتصروا عن قواعد إبراهيم. قالت: فقلت: يا رسول الله أفلا تردها على قواعد إبراهيم؟ فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لولا حدثان قومك بالكفر لفعلت. قال: فقال عبد الله بن عمر: لئن كانت عائشة سمعت هذا من رسول الله ﷺ ما أرى رسول الله ﷺ ترك استلام الركنين اللذين يليان الحجر إلا أن البيت لم يتمم على قواعد إبراهيم.
Malik narrated it in Hajj (109) from Ibn Shihab, from Salim bin Abdullah, that Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abu Bakr Siddiq informed Abdullah bin Umar, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it.Bukhari narrated it in Hajj (1583), and Muslim in Hajj (1333, 399), both through the route of Malik with the same wording, except that Muslim abridged it.Al-Hijr, with a kasrah on the jim, is the place known as Hatim.