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Are the hadiths and narrations mentioned in the article concerning the "Black Stone" authentic or fabricated?

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The Black Stone is a stone fixed in the southeastern corner of the Kaaba, rising one and a half meters from the ground. Allah sent it down from Paradise, and it was whiter than milk, but the sins of the children of Adam made it black. On the Day of Judgment, it will have two eyes and a tongue, bearing witness for those who touched it truthfully.

Touching, kissing, or pointing to it is the first action performed by the circumambulator, and kissing it expiates sins.

What was mentioned about the Qarmatians stealing the Black Stone is true; they stole it in the year 317 AH and it remained with them for 22 years.

As for describing it as a place where tears are shed, a very weak hadith was narrated concerning it, and the hadith "The Black Stone is the right hand of Allah on Earth" is false.

As for describing it as floating on water, not heating up with fire, and prayers being answered there, these are matters that have no basis in the Sunnah.

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