فقال له...

فقال له: أ تدري لم جاءوا بك؟ فقال الفيل برأسه: لا، فقال عبد المطلب: جاءوا بك لتهدم بيت ربك، أ فتراك فاعل ذلك؟ فقال برأسه: لا He -asws passed by the elephants during his departure, so he -asws said to the elephants: ‘O Mahmoud!’ So the elephant moved its head. Then he -asws said to it: ‘Do you know why they have come with you?’ The elephant said with (shook) its head, ‘No’. So Abdul Muttalib -asws said: ‘They have come with you to destroy the House of your Lord -azwj .

Do you see yourself doing that?’ It said (shook) by its head, ‘No’. فانصرف عبد المطلب إلى منزله، فلما أصبحوا غدوا به لدخول الحرم، فأبى و امتنع عليهم Abdul Muttalib -asws left for his house. When it was the morning they left by these (elephants) to enter the Sanctuary. They (elephants) refused, and refrained against them.

فقال عبد المطلب لبعض مواليه عند ذلك: اعل الجبل، فانظر ترى شيئا؟ فقال: أرى سوادا من قبل البحر، فقال له:يصيبه بصرك أجمع؟ فقال له: لا، و أوشك أن يصيب، فلما أن قرب قال: هو طير كثير و لا أعرفه Abdul Muttalib -asws said to one of his -asws friends during that: ‘Look at the top of the mountain, do you see anything?’ He said, ‘I see blackness in front of the sea’. So he -asws said to him: ‘It has affected your entire vision?’ He said to him -asws , ‘No’, and he doubted that he might be affected.

But when it (blackness) was closer, he said, ‘These are numerous birds and I do not recognise them’. يحمل كل طير في منقاره حصاة مثل حصاة الحذف أو دون حصاة الحذف. فقال عبد المطلب: و رب عبد المطلب ما تريد إلا القوم، حتى لما صارت فوق رؤوسهم أجمع ألقت الحصاة، فوقعت كل حصاة على هامة رجل، فخرجت من دبره فقتلته، فما انفلت منهم إلا رجل واحد يخبر الناس، فلما أن أخبرهم ألقت عليه حصاة فقتلته Each bird carried in its beak a pebble like the gravel, or other.

So Abdul Muttalib -asws said: ‘And the Lord -azwj of Abdul Muttalib -asws , what He -azwj Intends except for the group (Ethiopian cavalry). When they came over their heads, they all threw the pebbles unanimously. Each pebble fell on an important man (of the cavalry), and came out from his back, killing him. So none of them remained except for one man who informed the (Ethiopian) people. So, when he had informed them (of what had happened), a pebble came down upon him, killing him’.