Dhul-Suwayqatayn ( ar, ذو السويقتين, lit=the man with two thin legs, am, ዱል-ሱወይቃታይን) is a figure mentioned in the

hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approva ...

of the Islamic prophet

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, according to which a group of Abyssinian (

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) men are destined to permanently destroy the Ka‘aba at the end of times and remove its treasure. It will be dismantled brick-by-brick, therefore in a peaceful manner. At this time faith in

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will have disappeared, so the destruction will go unnoticed. Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As and Ibn Kathir interpreted that this will occur after the

second coming The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian (as well as Islamic and Baha'i) belief that Jesus will return again after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messian ...

of Isa (Jesus Christ). References to this are recorded in all six traditional Sunni compilations of hadith, the '' Kutub al-Sitta'', including the earliest and the most revered ones, namely '' Sahih al-Bukhari'' and ''

Sahih Muslim Sahih Muslim ( ar, صحيح مسلم, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim), group=note is a 9th-century ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (815–875). It is one of the most valued b ...

''. The tradition is likely related to the

Year of the Elephant The ʿām al-fīl ( ar, عام الفيل, Year of the Elephant) is the name in Islamic history for the year approximately equating to 570–571 CE. According to Islamic resources, it was in this year that Muhammad was born.Hajjah Adil, Amina, ...

, when the

Axumite The Kingdom of Aksum ( gez, መንግሥተ አክሱም, ), also known as the Kingdom of Axum or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom centered in Northeast Africa and South Arabia from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. Based primarily in wha ...

general

Abraha Abraha ( Ge’ez: አብርሃ) (also spelled Abreha, died after CE 570;Stuart Munro-Hay (2003) "Abraha" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C''. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. r. 525–at least 553S. C. Munro-Hay (1991) ''Aksum ...

is said to have attacked Mecca.Walter W. Müller (1987
"Outline of the History of Ancient Southern Arabia,"
in Werner Daum (ed.), ''Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix''. Pinguin-Verlag. Following the

Fifth Crusade The Fifth Crusade (1217–1221) was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by Al-Adil I, al-Adil, brothe ...

(1217–1221), this tradition was transferred to Europe when Bishop

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's ''Historia Damiatina'' described a

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king as an omen indicating the end of Islam.

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