موسوعة - ashrafheikal elmoshakaes

Egypt made the cover of the Kaaba until 1962

                                            Cover of the Kaaba

One of the accounts that the first Kaaba partially covered is Ismail peace be upon him, and the first woman Kst Kaaba is Nabila Bint Habab or Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib pray For the vow of his vow.

The date of the manufacture of Egypt to the Kaaba, with the beginning of the Fatimid state, where the Fatimid rulers were interested in sending the cover of the Kaaba every year from Egypt, the cladding is white in color, but in the Mamluk state and during the reign of Sultan Zaher Baybars, cladding was sent from Egypt, The king of Yemen, the Mujahid, wanted in 1975 to remove the garment of the Egyptian Kaaba to cover it as a garment from Yemen. When the Emir of Makkah learned that he told the Egyptians, they arrested him and sent a handkerchief in the shackles to Cairo.

There were also attempts to obtain the honor of the cover of the Kaaba by Persians and Iraq, but the Mamluk sultans did not allow anyone to dispute them in this, and to preserve this honor was stopped by King Ismail bin Abdul Malik Nasser Mohammed bin Qalawun, King of Egypt in 751 AH special stand for the outer Kaaba Once every year, this waqf was a village of two villages of Qalioubia Bisos and Abu al-Ghaith, and obtained from this stay at 8900 dirhams per year, and this was the system of the reign of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman law.

Egypt continued to receive the honor of covering the Kaaba after the fall of the Mamluk state and submission to the Ottoman Empire. Sultan Selim I was concerned with the manufacture of the Ka'bah and its decoration, as well as the dressing of the Prophet's room.

Egypt ceases to send the cloak of the Kaaba in the reign of Muhammad Ali

In the era of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Egypt stopped sending the cladding after the clash that took place between the followers of Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Wahab in the Hijazi lands and the Egyptian pilgrimage convoy in 1222 H corresponding to 1807, but Egypt sent back cladding in 1228 AH.

The house was established to cover the Kaaba in Al-Kharnafsh district in Cairo in 1233 AH, an ancient neighborhood located at the intersection of a street between the two walls and Bab Al-Shaeriya. This house still exists and maintains the last garment made for the Kaaba inside. Egypt stopped sending the garment of the Kaaba when Saudi Arabia took over the honor of manufacturing it.