General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophets Mosque

This is the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque's own institutional record, the Saudi state body responsible for the care of the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and, within it, the Kaaba and the Black Stone, al-Hajar al-Aswad, set in its eastern corner. As the modern custodian's own account it is authoritative for the object's current custody and physical maintenance. Its limit is that it is a state institutional record concerned with present-day administration, not a historical or theological study of the Black Stone's pre-Islamic and early Islamic significance, so a claim about that deeper history needs a scholarly source alongside this custodial record.