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In al-Tabari's history, Abraha is said to have been the commander of the second army sent by Kaleb of Axum after the first, led by 'Ariat, failed. Abraha was reported to have led his army of 100,000 men to successfully crush all resistance by the Yemeni army and then, following the suicide of Dhu Nuwas, seized power and established himself at ...
Abraha attempted to divert their pilgrimage to al-Qullays and appointed a man named Muhammad ibn Khuza'i [6] to Mecca and Tihamah as a king with a message that al-Qullays was both much better than other houses of worship and purer, having not been defiled by the housing of idols. [1] Ibn Ishaq's Prophetic biography states:
Their leader, Aryat, assumed power after overthrowing the Himyarite King Dhu Nuwas. In 535 CE, Abraha al-Habashi declared himself king of Yemen after breaking away from the Axumite state in Abyssinia. Abraha ruled independently and sought to spread Christianity throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
When Abraha the Abyssinian passed along the lands of Al-Azd on his way to Mecca to demolish the Kaaba, he sent cavalry to conquer the Azd tribes, But the Azd tribes, led by the leader Abd Shams Ibn Masrouh, repelled him and defeated his army, forcing Abraha al-Habashi to take another route to Mecca. [6]
Abraha sought to promote Christianity in the predominantly Jewish kingdom while also attempting to antagonise the Kaaba in Mecca, a major religious centre for the adherents of Arab polytheism. Abraha, therefore, ordered the construction of the Al-Qalis Church (also known as Al-Qulays and Al-Qullays, from the Greek ekklēsía) [3] in Sanaa.
Dhul-Suwayqatayn (Arabic: ذو السويقتين, lit. 'the man with two thin legs', [1] Amharic: ዱል-ሱወይቃታይን) is a figure mentioned in the hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [1] according to which a group of Abyssinian men are destined to permanently destroy the Ka‘aba at the end of times and remove its treasure.
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Al-Habash was known in Islamic literature as a Christian kingdom, guaranteeing its a historical exonym for the Aksumites of antiquity. In the modern day, variations of the term are used in Turkey , Iran , and the Arab World in reference to Ethiopia and as a pan-ethnic word in the west by the Amhara , Tigray , and Biher-Tigrinya of Eritrea and ...