Matlabi, the first person to make a door for the Ka'aba was the Yemeni king, Tubba'-the Third, who ruled long before the birth of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh). A similar story is also told by Al-Azraqui in 'Tariekh Al Ka 'aba Muazzama'. The book notes that when the Quraish were maintaining the Ka'aba they made a door 11 cubits high with two shutters. (A cubit is an old measurement equivalent to 40 centimeters). Ibn Al-Zubair also did the same. Al-Hajjaj - the Ummiad ruler made a shorter door measuring six cubits and a span because he raised the door from the ground. Two Ka'aba doors were made during Saudi rule. The first one was at the time of King Abdulaziz's rule in 1363H (1944). It was made of aluminium, buttressed by iron bars and was 2.5 centimeters thick and 3.1 meters high. The front side of the door was covered with silver sheets and coated with gold, and decorated with inscriptions of Allah's attributes. --MORE
