Owners of the Elephants Notes

By Zakera

Abraha al- ashram is a governor who wrote a letter to the king to the king of Abyssinia, Negus.

The man who urinated on the walls was from Kinanah and he wasn't Muslim.

Abraha declared a war with a train of elephants because he thought the man who urinated on the churches wall was Muslim.

Abraha wanted to destroy the Kab'ah.

When Abraha arrived  at Al- Maghmas he sent a man called Al- Aswad Ibn Maqsud with a calvary dispatch.

The chief of the Hudhail tribe who offered Abraha one-third of the properties of Tihamah district in return for his going back and leaving the Ka'bah alone.

Abraha died because when when Allah the Almighty wanted to destroy the owners of the elephant, he sent against them birds in flocks from the seaside resembling hawks, each one of them carried three stones: one in his beak and two in his two legs. Abraha himself was hit with the stones and was cariied till he reached the Yemen where he died. 

the riders and stableman of the elephant at Mecca blind, crippled and asking the people to feed them.

after the death of Abraha, the Abyssinians were ruled by his sons, Yaksum, then by his brother Masruq Ibn Abraha who was their last king.

at last the church was deserted.