Ebraha, the king of Yemen, came to destroy the Kaaba.

Ebraha, the king of Yemen, came to destroy the Kaaba. He seized some camels of Abdul Muttalib. Abu Talib saw his father when asking Ebraha for his camels but not mentioning anything about the Kaaba, which Ebraha had come to destroy. Abdul Muttalib was about to be lowly before his son but he answered as a certain faithful to Allah: "I am the lord of my camels and the Kaaba has its Lord to guard it." Abdul Muttalib went to the Kaaba. He held the ferrule of the gate of the Kaaba…