Described

The black stone consists of several parts connected together by a silver frame, [10] which is fixed by silver nails to a stone. Some small parts have been reinforced together by gluing seven or eight parts together. The original size of the stone is about 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) in 16 centimeters (6.3 inches). Its original size is unclear as a result of changing its dimensions over time, and the stone has been reshaped on several occasions. [11]

A manual drawing of the stone by the Kurdish , after placing a paper on the stone and painted with the same size correct, the first spring of 1376 AH. [12]

Muhammad ibn Khuza'a said when Qaramitah returned the stone in 339 AH and looked at it before it was placed. He said: "I looked at the black stone and it was cut off. If it is black in the head only, and all of it is white, and it is as long as an arm." [13]

In the 10th century AD, historians described it as an elliptical one arm (just over 1.5 ft (0.46 m)). In the early seventeenth century it was measured as 1.5 yard (1.4 m) in 1.33 yard (1.22 m) and in the century in the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha, he was measured better, measuring 2.5 feet (0.76 m) tall in 1.5 feet (0.46 m) wide. [11]

The first black stone was described in Western literature at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century by European travelers in the Arabian Peninsula where they visited the Kaaba. The Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Mecca in 1814 and gave a detailed description of it in 1829 in the book "Travels in the Arab Countries". [14]

Among the late, described and drawn by the calligrapher Mohammad Taher Kurdi said:

"Which appears from the black stone now in our time - the middle of the fourteenth century AH - and we receive and accept eight small pieces of different size, the largest of them as much as a single period, had fallen from it when the attacks by some of the ignorant and aggressors in previous times. Fifteen years ago, in the early 14th century, these pieces were reduced due to the black stone. The small pieces of paper were kneaded with wax, musk and amber, and were also placed on the same stone.