The birds of the elephant
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.
In the Qur'an · 3
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وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
And send against them swarms of flying creatures,
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تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيلٍ
Which pelted them with stones of baked clay,
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فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
And made them like green crops devoured (by cattle)?