قال: فصعد عبد الله أبا قبيس، فما لبث أن جاء طير أبابيل مثل...

قال: فصعد عبد الله أبا قبيس، فما لبث أن جاء طير أبابيل مثل السيل و الليل، فسقط على أبي قبيس، ثم صار إلى البيت، فطاف [به‏] سبعا، ثم صار إلى الصفا و المروة فطاف بهما سبعا He -asws said: ‘Abdullah -asws climbed Abu Qubays, and it was not long before flocks of birds came like the flood and the night. So he -asws descended from Abu Qubays, then went to the House (Kabah) and performed Tawaaf of it seven times. Then he -asws went to Al-Safa and Al-Marwa and circled these seven times.

فجاء عبد الله إلى أبيه فأخبره الخبر، فقال: انظر يا بني ما يكون من أمرها بعد فأخبرني به Abdullah -asws went to his -asws father -asws and informed him -asws of the news. So he -asws said: ‘O my -asws son -asws ! Look at what is to become of its matter afterwards and give me -asws the news of it’.

فنظرها فإذا هي قد أخذت نحو عسكر الحبشة فأخبر عبد المطلب بذلك، فخرج عبد المطلب و هو يقول: يا أهل مكة، اخرجوا إلى العسكر فخذوا غنائمكم So he -asws looked and saw that it had taken (killed) most of the Ethiopian soldiers. So he -asws informed Abdul Muttalib -asws of that. Abdul Muttalib -asws went out and he -asws was saying: ‘O people of Makkah!

Come out to the army, and take your war booty!’ قال: فأتوا العسكر، و هم أمثال الخشب النخرة، و ليس من الطير إلا ما معه ثلاثة أحجار، في منقاره و رجليه، يقتل بكل حصاة منها واحدا من القوم، فلما أتوا على جميعهم انصرف الطير، و لم ير قبل ذلك و لا بعده He -asws said: ‘They came to the army, and they were like decayed wood, and there was none from the birds except that there were with it three pebbles – a pebble each in its beak and its two claws. Each of the pebble killed one from the people.

So, when they had come upon all of them, the birds left, and there had never been seen before that, nor were ever seen after it. فلما هلك القوم بأجمعهم جاء عبد المطلب إلى البيت و قال: فتعلق بأستاره، يا حابس الفيل بذي المغمس حبسته كأنه مكوكس When the people were destroyed in their entirety, Abdul Muttalib -asws came to the House (Kabah), and he -asws recited (a poem) by holding its curtain: – ‘O Holder of the elephants at Al-Maghmas (a place near Makkah on the road to Al-Taef)!

He -azwj Pulverised them as if they were rubble. In a gathering where souls perished’. في مجلس تزهق فيه الأنفس فانصرف و هو يقول في فرار قريش و جزعهم من الحبشة: طارت قريش إذ رأت خميسا فظلت فردا لا أرى أنيسا و لا أحس منهم حسيسا إلا أخا لي ماجدا نفيسا مسودا في أهله رئيسا And he -asws was saying (a poem) regarding the fleeing of the Quraysh, and their alarm from the Ethiopian (army): ‘The Quraysh fled.