Editing Year of the Elephant (section)

== Other sources ==
This event is referred to in the Qur’an, in [[Sura]]h 105, ''[[Al-Fil]]'' ({{langx|ar|الـفِـيـل}}, "The Elephant"), and is discussed in its related [[tafsir]].

Some scholars have placed the Year of the Elephant one or two decades earlier than 570 CE,<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordencycloped03espo_0/page/154 154]|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World: Libe-Sare|last1=Esposito|first1=John L.|author-link=John L. Esposito|year=1995|isbn=978-0195096149|publisher=Oxford University Press|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordencycloped03espo_0}}</ref> with a tradition attributed to [[Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri]] in the works of [[‘Abd al-Razzaq al-San‘ani]] placing it before the birth of Muhammad's father.<ref>{{cite book|pages=3–5|title=The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad|publisher=NYU Press|last1=ibn Rashid|first1=Mamar|translator=Sean W. Anthony|isbn=978-0814769638|date=16 May 2014}}</ref>