Hadith 271

(The book) ‘Hayat Al Haywan’ –
‘The Pyramids are from the wonders of constructions of the world, and these are graves of the kings. They wanted to be distinguished over rest of the kings after their deaths just as they had been distinguished over them during their lifetimes. It is said that when Al-Mamoun arrived to Egypt, he ordered the excavation of one the two Pyramids. He excavated after great struggle and huge expense. He found in its interior, spills and coffee. Its way was difficult, and he placed a room in its top made of cubes. The length of each cube from its cubes was of eight cubits, and in the middle of it was a fountain wherein were one hundred decayed rums. The times had come upon these. He paused from the excavation what was besides it. And it is transmitted that Hirmis the 1st was Akhnoukh, and he-as is Idrees-as. He-as pointed from the situations of the planets upon the coming of the flood, so he-as ordered with building the Pyramid. And it is said that he-as had it built during a period of six months, and he-as wrote in it: ‘Tell the ones to come after us to demolish it in six hundred years’ – and the demolishing is easier than the construction, and he-as clothed it with the brocade – ‘So let them clothe it in straw mats’ – and the straw mats are easier than the brocade. And Ibn Al-Jowzy said, in the book ‘Salwah Al-Ahzan’, ‘And from the wonders are the Pyramids. The thickness of each one of the two is of four hundred cubits from marble and emeralds, and in it is written, ‘I have built it with my possessions. So the one who claims to have strength, then let him demolish it, for the demolishing is easier than the constructing’. Ibn Al-Munady said, ‘It has reached us that they had repeatedly measured the taxes of the world, and it could not be evaluated for demolishing it. And Allah-azwj is more Knowing’’. [110] (Not a Hadeeth + non-Shia source)