Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Fil, Ayah 5
فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍۢ مَّأْكُولٍۭ
And He made them like eaten straw.
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thus making them like devoured blades? like the leaves of crops which have been consumed trampled and destroyed by animals. God destroyed each one of them with his own stone inscribed with his name larger than a lentil in size but smaller than a chick-pea able to pierce through an egg a man or an elephant and go through the ground. This took place in the year of the Prophet’s birth s.
Related Hadiths
Sahih Muslim#2166Sahih
The people equalised it (then) with two mudds of fine wheat.
Narrated by Abdullah b. Umar reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered the (payment of) Zakat-ul-Fitr one sa' of dates, or one sa' of barley. Ibn 'Umar ('Abdullah b. 'Umar) further said:
Sahih Muslim#5059Sahih
I think he also made a mention of hollow stump.
Narrated by Muharib b. Dithar reported a hadith like this on the authority of Ibn 'Umar through a different chain of transmitters. He (the narrator) said:
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And made them like green crops devoured) by worms?'