A Saudi man named Saleh Al Musfer Gamdi claimed to find a stone that brought ababil bird troops in expelling the elephant troops who want to destroy the Kaaba hundreds of years ago. The stone was found Gamdi in the mountains occurred on the border of Yemen while hunting. The dark stones are believed to be those mentioned in the Qur'an. The 131-gram stone has images of birds and elephants. Just as it is written in the Al-fil letters on the story of elephant troops and ababil birds. In the letter mentioned, Allah Almighty sends an ababil bird to throw Sejil stone (gravel of hell) to destroy the army led by Yemen's warlord Abraha before the advent of Islam to bring down the Ka'aba in Mecca.
Surat Al-fil itself literally means elephant, because it was elephant year. Gamdi claimed to find the hard black stone gray was in the southern part of Jarb valley. The area used to be known as the Green Wadi, where Abraha's place and the elephant army stayed for a period of time before heading for Mecca. "A year after I found a stone, I asked an Egyptian friend who was a relative working in the archeology field and they contacted me and asked me to send them a picture of the stone," said Gamdi. Estimated by experts, the stone is 1442 years old. While the news of the discovery of high-value historical stone was quickly spread throughout the Kingdom. Gamdi told a year later the stone was offered USD 4 million or approximately Rp 46miliar ($ 1 = Rp 11,627) but rejected. Even the tourism office asked him to hand over the stone he rejected. "After a series of messages and phone calls, they said they would buy stones for USD 4 million but I refused to sell them.Some later, the tourism department in Baha (southern Saudi Arabia) asked me to hand over more stones but I refused," he said at that time.
Abraha's story begins with envy. He does not admit if the Kabah is more crowded than its place, Yemen is a large church building. He then had a desire to move Arabs to Yemen. Abrahah with the arrogant claim to be able to destroy the Kaaba with ease. But eventually his elephant troops were ravaged by the attack of the ababil birds that showered rocks and caused their defeat and destruction before they managed to knock down the Kaaba.