The gutter is also known as the rainspout of blessing and Muslims believe that prayers under the gutter are granted by God.
* Kaba had no gutter until five years before Be’that, the appointment of Hazrat Muhammad (S) to prophethood.
* Quraysh, the ruling tribe of Mecca at the time of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (S), installed the first gutter made of wood during the reconstruction of the Kaba.
* In 684 CE, Abdullah bin Zubair was the first Muslim to install a new wooden rainspout, which was later replaced with another wooden rainspout in 694 by Hajjaj ibn Yusuf.
* The first golden gutter was fitted by Kufa and Basra governor Khalid ibn Abdullah Qasri (reigned 724-728 CE). However, some historians believe that it had been made of silver plated with gold.
* Iranian merchant Sheikh Abolqasem Ramesht Farsi replaced the golden gutter with another one in 1143.
* The Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad Abu Abdullah Mohammad Moqtafi ordered the installation of a new gutter for the Kaba in 1147.
* The Abbasid caliph of Baghdad Abul-Abbas Ahmad Nasser (reigned 1180-1225) fixed a wooden gutter with a coating of lead.
* New decorations were added to the gutter in 1380 and shortly thereafter, it was replaced with a gutter made of copper.
* In 1548, the copper gutter was replaced with a silver one by Suleyman I, the Ottoman sultan.
* In 1556, the silver gutter was replaced with a golden one made in Egypt.
* Ahmed I, the Ottoman sultan (1603-1617), ordered a gutter made of gold, gems and lapis lazuli in 1604.
* Murad IV, the Ottoman sultan (1623-1640), ordered a gutter made of wood and silver in 1631.
That brings us to the present when in 1854, Abdulmecid I, the Ottoman sultan (1839-1861), ordered a golden gutter, which is still on the Kaba roof.
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