This chapter addresses a legendary historical event supposedly occurring around the year of Muhammad's birth.
The narrative of this surah relies entirely on a pre-Islamic Arabian folklore myth that leaves absolutely no historical, archaeological, or contemporary trace.
Surah 105:3-4:
And He sent against them birds in flocks, striking them with stones of hard clay.
The surah claims that a massive Christian army from Yemen led by Abraha marched on Mecca with an elephant, but was completely obliterated when flocks of mythological birds (Ababil) dropped tiny baked clay pebbles that miraculously liquefied the soldiers like "eaten straw."
While Abraha's military campaigns are well-documented in actual South Arabian inscriptions, there is absolutely zero historical evidence that his army ever reached Mecca, let alone that they were wiped out by a massive, anomalous biological strike from the sky. The text adopts unverified, superstitious regional folklore and camp-fire legends, passing them off as factual historical reality to inject false historic prestige into the Meccan sanctuary.