Hazrat Talha met Hazrat Hammad and said: May your deed (Umrah) be accepted.

Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) gave a supplication to a person when he returned from Hajj, saying: May Allah accept your deeds, increase your reward, and grant you a better return for your expenses.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abdullah bin Sa’ib that I heard the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicating between the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone: O Allah, grant us goodness in this world and in the Hereafter, and save us from the punishment of the Fire.

Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) never used to leave this supplication between Rukn Yamani and Maqam Ibrahim: "O my Lord, grant me contentment with the sustenance You have provided me, and bless it for me. Whatever is lost or diminished, grant me a better replacement for it."

It is narrated from Hazrat Muhammad bin Ishaq that an elderly woman of Mecca says: When Hazrat Ibn Affan was martyred, I was a fourteen-year-old girl. I saw the Kaaba in such a state that there was no covering on it except what people had put on it—a red cloth that people had thrown over it, and a white cloth, and a woolen sheet. And nothing else was put on it that would be considered a hanging covering (i.e., a proper covering made for the Kaaba). Indeed, I saw the House of Allah in such a state that there was no gold or silver on it. The narrator, Hazrat Muhammad, says that during the era of the two Shaykhs, no covering was put on the Kaaba. Indeed, Hazrat Umar bin Abdul Aziz put coverings from Maqri and Yemeni cloths on it.

16558 - Muhammad said: The House was not (clothed) (1) (covered) (2) during the time of Abu Bakr or Umar, and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz covered it with wasail and qubati, and wasail are Yemeni garments (3).

When the covering was not placed on the Ka'bah, Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) would remove the cloth or skin of his sacrificial animal before sacrificing it and deposit it in the treasury of the Ka'bah so that it could be placed on the Ka'bah. Then, when the covering began to be placed on the Ka'bah, he abandoned this practice.

It is narrated from Hazrat Laith that during the time of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), coverings of leather and burlap were placed over the Kaaba.

It is narrated from Ibrahim that when the companions would visit a sick person who had not performed Hajj, they would instruct him to offer a sacrifice of a camel.

Ibrahim states that the Companions used to prefer that when one could not perform Hajj, he should make a will for sacrifice.