{
 "id": "concept/ababil-birds",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "ababil-birds",
 "label": {
  "ar": "طير أبابيل",
  "en": "The birds of the elephant",
  "ur": "ابابیل"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أرسل الله على أصحاب الفيل طيراً أبابيل ترميهم بحجارة من سجّيل فجعلهم كعصف مأكول حين ساروا لهدم الكعبة في عام الفيل.",
  "en": "God sent against the People of the Elephant flights of birds pelting them with stones of baked clay, leaving them like straw eaten up, when they marched to destroy the Kaaba in the Year of the Elephant.",
  "ur": "جب اصحابِ فیل سالِ فیل میں کعبہ ڈھانے چلے تو اللہ نے ان پر جھنڈ کے جھنڈ پرندے بھیجے جو سنگریزے پھینکتے تھے اور انہیں چبے ہوئے بھوسے جیسا کر دیا۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [
  "nature-browser",
  "nature-bird"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "animals-and-mercy"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "natural",
  "sources": [
   "source/tanzil-quran"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Nature Explorer seed record (docs/plan/34-nature-browser.md); worded from the cited Qur'an ayahs and hadith collections",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "nature-browser-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-105-3",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-105-4",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-105-5",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/tanzil-quran"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/year-of-the-elephant-and-birth",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/elephant",
  "event/abyssinian-occupation-of-yemen",
  "event/omens-of-kisra-at-birth",
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "person/abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abraha",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/muhammad"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}