Sayyidah Ayshah (RA) narrated that she longed to enter the Ka’bah and pray (salah) therein. So, Allah’s Messenger took her by her hand and admitted her into the hijr
(hatirn) and said to her, “Offer the salah, if you like to enter the House, for, it is a part of the House. Your people made it small when they built the Ka’bah and took this out of the House.”
(Ahmed24670, Abu Dawud 2028, 2910]