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* The Bible contained a story of the Tower of Babel, Egyptians built pyramids long before Islam.. So the desire to build tall buildings was nothing new.
* The Bible contained a story of the Tower of Babel, Egyptians built pyramids long before Islam.. So the desire to build tall buildings was nothing new.


And the hadith doesn't say skyscrapers, it only says "tall" and "tall" is relative. There might have been people in the 7th century building buildings that could be considered tall in that time. Read what medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Hajar wrote:
And the hadith doesn't say skyscrapers, it only says "tall" and "tall" is relative. There might have been people in the 7th century building buildings that could be considered tall in that time. Medieval Islamic scholar Ibn Hajar wrote in his commentary on Sahih Bukhari:
{{Quote|Fatḥ al-Bārī fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī|
{{Quote|Fatḥ al-Bārī fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī|
يتطاول الناس في البنيان وهي من العلامات التي وقعت عن قرب في زمن النبوة  
يتطاول الناس في البنيان وهي من العلامات التي وقعت عن قرب في زمن النبوة  
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