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Year of the Elephant. The ʿām al-fīl ( Arabic: عام الفيل, Year of the Elephant) is the name in Islamic history for the year approximately equating to 570–571 CE. According to Islamic resources, it was in this year that Mohammad was born. [1] The name is derived from an event said to have occurred at Mecca: Abraha, the Abyssinian ...
The principal subject of the surah is a specific historic event. The year of Muhammad's birth is identified as 'the Year of the Elephant', when Mecca was attacked by Abraha accompanied by an elephant. Quranic exegetes interpreted that God saved the Meccans from this force by sending a swarm of birds that pelted the invaders with clay stones and ...
Muhammad in Medina. Muhammad, the final Islamic prophet, was born and lived in Mecca for the first 53 years of his life ( c. 570–622 CE) until the Hijra. This period of his life is characterized by his proclamation of prophethood. Muhammad's father, Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, died before he was born.
Muhammad's paternal grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, put the battle in God's hands, realising that he could not take on the forces of Abraha. As Abraha's forces approached the city, the story goes: The next day, as they prepared for battle, they discovered that their elephant (called Mahmud) refused to approach Mecca.
Abd al-Muttalibعَبْد ٱلْمُطَّلِب. Shayba ibn Hāshim ( Arabic: شَيْبة بْن هاشِم; c. 497–578 ), better known as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, ( Arabic: عَبْد الْمُطَّلِب, lit. 'Servant of Muttalib ') was the fourth chief of the Quraysh tribal confederation and grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .
Muhammad of Ghor. Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam ( Persian: معز الدین محمد بن سام, romanized : Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sām; c. 1144 – 15 March 1206), also known as Muhammad of Ghor or Muhammad Ghori, was a ruler from the Ghurid dynasty based in the Ghor region of what is today central Afghanistan who ruled from 1173 ...
570: Year of the Elephant. 50-60 days before the Muhammed's birth, Abraha, the Viceroy of Yemen, reaches Mecca with his army of elephants to demolish the Ka'aba. 570: Birth of Muhammad. 573: Birth of Abu Bakr, the senior companion of Muhammad and his father-in-law. 576: Death of Aminah bint Wahb, the mother of Muhammad (approximate date).
Abu Talib was born in the city of Mecca in the Hijaz region in 535 CE. He was the son of the Hashimite chief, Abd al-Muttalib, and a brother of Muhammad 's father, Abdullah, who had died before Muhammad's birth. After the death of Muhammad's mother Aminah bint Wahab, Muhammad, a child still, was taken into the care of his grandfather, Abd al ...