Abraha

Abraha ordered his soldiers to strike but the elephant in front of his army never take a step towards Kaaba.

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Abdulmuttalib, the leader of Hashimites branch of Quraishis and grandfather of the Holy Prophet, met Abraha and reminded him that his Owner would protect Kaaba, which was known as the House of Allah Baytullah.

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Abraha came up to the surrounding area of Mecca with his army and stayed there.

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Humboldt deemed it probable that the Koranic legend (chap. iv.) of the Abyssinian host under Abraha destroyed by a shower of stones baked in hell-fire, referred, not to small-pox as is generally supposed, but to an actual volcanic eruption in Arabia.

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Sidi ibn Thalabi and his brother-in-law, Abraha, were to be invited by

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Haroun and Giafer accompanied their new acquaintances, Abraha and Sidi ibn Thalabi, on board the ship or pleasure barge belonging to the latter.

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Abraha, who was a rather dull and stolid personage, accepted these mock apologies with such imperturbable gravity and sincerity that Haroun was delighted with him.

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I was on my way to the river accompanied by Abraha only, when passing through a street in the lower part of the town we came upon a crowd of people shouting and gesticulating and making a great hubbub.

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Addressing Abraha, he said, "You must be pleased, sir, to excuse any roughness or want of good manners and politeness on the part of my friend Yussuf; he is perhaps a little bit jealous of the good fortune of one who has been regarded as the Grand Vizier."

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Murad Essed, like Sidi ibn Thalabi and Abraha, knew Haroun only in his assumed character as a merchant.

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