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While Abdul-Mutalib and his relatives were engaged in dua, a sandstorm approached that was caused by the march of the soldiers. Abdul-Mutalib remained in dua until the elephants stopped and wouldn't move. Al-Aswad informed the king about this, and the king sent Abraha to establish a truce with Abdul-Mutalib. Their conditions were: hand over the men responsible for the church fire or to give the same number of people lost in the fire for retribution, as well as an amount of money to rebuild the church. Abraha and al-Aswad decided to send a man named Hanthala who was known for his ruthlessness. He reassured al-Aswad that the remainder of the Meccans either accept the truce or he'd come back with all their decapitated heads. As soon as he saw Abdul-Mutalib, he became afraid. He told him of the truce, but Abdul-Mutalib said: "How strange! You want the innocent take care of the crimes of the guilty, when we are the ones who reassure people's safety and fight oppression?! 

As for the Kaaba, I told your king before that it has it's own protector. If you want to march, then come. If you want to retreat, then retreat. So go back to your master, and inform him of what I said". When Hanthala heard that, he got angry and wanted to kill Abdul-Mutalib so he attacked him, but Abdul-Mutalib got a hold of him, threw him to the ground and hit him. Then he said: "By the glory of my Lord, if you weren't a messenger appointed by them, I would have killed you right there". Hanthala went back and informed the generals what happened, so they decided to attack. When they got close, all of a sudden a swarm of birds appeared from no where. They were carrying 3 rocks each, one of them was the size of a cicer, while the other two were as big as lentils. They all flew around until they were directly above the army. The soldiers became very afraid, stating that they haven't seen birds like that before. Al-Aswad tried to reassure them, and threw arrows to scare them away. Then the birds started screaming, as if they were making dua. A voice came out saying: "O' Birds, do what you have been ordered to do"