'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her), wife of Allah's Apostle (s.a.w.a.), heard Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.a.) as saying:

If your people, had not been recent converts to Islam, I would have spent the treasure of the Ka'ba in the way of Allah and would have constructed its door just on the level of the ground and would have encompassed in it the space of Hijr.

'Abdullah b. Zubair reported on the authority of his mother's sister ('A'isha) saying that Allah's Messenger (s.a.w.a.) said:

'A'isha, if your people had not been recently polytheists (and new converts to Islam), I would have demolished the Ka'ba, and would have brought it to the level of the ground and would have constructed two doors, one facing the east and the other one to the west, and would have added to it six cubits of area from Hijr, for the Quraish had reduced it when they rebuilt it.