[Verginius Rufus]

The Temple had been destroyed in the year 70. Julian the Apostate had plans to rebuild it but he was killed during his invasion of Persia just a couple of years into his reign so the plans never were put into effect.

When the Patriarch Sophronius surrendered Jerusalem to the caliph Omar, the caliph didn't destroy the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, so my guess is that he would have spared the Temple if it had still been there, but there is no way to know.

[Big Red Badger]

Church of the
Holy Sepulchre,
What a fascinating
Relic,,,
I visited it 25years ago.

[Cronos]

Islam considers itself pure Judaism. It keeps a variation of halasha and of kosher. If there was a third temple (which there wasn’t), it would have not only been spared, but made into a mosque.