Thread by @Ubaidbinriyaz

@Hadithoftheday Aam-al-fīl or Year of elephant..
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born in the year of the elephant (Aam-al-feel)
This year was named after the event whereby Allah protected the Kabaah from an invading Abyssinian army. This incident is related in the Chapter of the Elephant (Quran: 105)

@Hadithoftheday Before Islam (in the year in which the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was born), the Ka’bah was subjected to an attack by the Ethiopian Abrahah, who had built al-Qulays, a church to which he wanted the Arabs to make their pilgrimage. +

@Hadithoftheday At that time, Abraha, the Governer of Yemen, had invaded Makkah intending to demolish the Ka'bah in order to attract the Arab Pilgrims to the mock Ka'bah (al-Qulays) he had set up in Yemen. Abraha arrived in Makkah, together with his troops, on elephants.

@Hadithoftheday He set out with his army, with whom was the elephant, and when they reached Makkah, Allah sent flocks of birds against them; each bird was carrying three stones like chickpeas or lentils, one in its beak and two in its claws.

@Hadithoftheday Every man who was struck by a stone was killed, so the army was destroyed, by the command of Allaah.
Allaah sent flights of birds carrying brick stones in there beaks and claws. They dropped them onto the invaders until all of them and the elephants were destroyed.

@Hadithoftheday Allah has mentioned this incident in Surah Feel of Qur'an:
Allah says:

“Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the Owners of the Elephant?

Did He not make their plot go astray? (Al-Feel, 105;1-2)

@Hadithoftheday And sent against them birds, in flocks,

Striking them with stones of Sijjeel,

And made them like an eaten straw .” [al-Feel 105; 3-5)