Abd al-Muttalib: Difference between revisions

According to religious and regional narrations, Abraha’s offensive against Mecca, famously known as [['Am al-Fil|the Companions of the Elephant]], was contemporary to 'Abd al-Muttalib. Abraha marched from Yemen to Mecca with an army of elephants to destroy [[the Ka'ba]]. Abraha’s army pillaged the camels of Quraysh, for which a meeting between 'Abd al-Muttalib and Abraha was organized, where 'Abd al-Muttalib only requested his camels be freed. Abraha said, “I thought you have come to negotiate about the Ka'ba.” 'Abd al-Muttalib replied, “I am the master of the camels, and that house (i.e. the Ka'ba) has a master for itself.” He went back to Mecca and told the people to go to the mountains and take their belongings with them. Only a couple of Abraha’s men survived and fled the following day, when a giant flock of birds attacked his army.