{"id":40321,"date":"2024-06-22T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=40321"},"modified":"2024-06-22T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T11:07:13","slug":"caretaker-key-holder-of-kaaba-sheikh-saleh-al-shaibi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/caretaker-key-holder-of-kaaba-sheikh-saleh-al-shaibi-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker &#038; key holder of Kaaba Sheikh Saleh Al-Shaibi passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Saleh Al-Shaibi, the principal key holder and guardian of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hajj-ministry-starts-issuing-umrah-visas\/\">Kaaba<\/a>, departed on June 22, Saturday. The Al Mu&#8217;alla Cemetery in Makkah will serve as the site of the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s companion Uthman bin Talha had 109 successors, the most recent being Sheikh Saleh Al-Shaibi. This companion received the key to the Kaaba from the prophet.<\/p>\n<p>The key has been passed down via the Prophet&#8217;s companions&#8217; generations ever since. In 2013, he assumed responsibility for the Kaaba&#8217;s upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shaibi was the 77th member of the same family to look for the Kaaba during their centuries-long role as custodians.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shaibi was a university lecturer who wrote works on religion and history in addition to having a doctorate in Islamic studies.<\/p>\n<p>The family has been in charge of overseeing the Kaaba&#8217;s operations, which include keeping it clean, washing, ironing, and fixing its ripped Kiswa (cover). They also welcome guests and take care of all associated duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Saleh Al-Shaibi, the principal key holder and guardian of the Kaaba, departed on June 22, Saturday. The Al Mu&#8217;alla Cemetery in Makkah will serve as the site of the funeral. The Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s companion Uthman bin Talha had 109 successors, the most recent being Sheikh Saleh Al-Shaibi. This companion received the key to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":40322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18886,18887,18885],"class_list":["post-40321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-caretaker-key-holder-of-kaaba-sheikh-saleh-al-shaibi-passes-away","tag-kaaba","tag-sheikh-saleh-al-shaibi-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}