Maqam Ibrahim
Definition
Maqam Ibrahim — the Station of Ibrahim — is the stone near the Kaaba that bears the literal footprints of the patriarch, preserved by divine will across four millennia as a sign for those who contemplate it. According to Ibn Kathir's narrations, as Ibrahim raised the walls of the Kaaba, he stood on this stone which softened to receive his feet, rising and descending as the walls were built. The stone was then hardened permanently, and the Quran commands pilgrims: 'Take the Station of Ibrahim as a place of prayer.' For Ibn Kathir, the maqam is not merely a historical artifact but a living testimony — the world's oldest physical trace of a specific human being, preserved specifically because of who that human being was.
As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.
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