Abrahah al-Ashram

Aryāṭ ruled over Yemen for a while. He was very strict. One of his army generals staged a revolt against him, and the Abyssinians in Yemen were divided now — a group of them were with Aryāṭ, and the other group were with the new leader, called Abrahah, and they were fighting. Aryāṭ told Abrahah, "If we kill each other, the people of the land will take over. So how about we have a one-on-one fight, a man-to-man, me and you?" Abrahah agreed, but Abrahah made a secret agreement with some of his security guards, that "If you see me losing, jump in and help. If you see me winning, leave me alone. But if you see that I'm losing, come in."

So there were all of these people surrounding, and Abrahah and Aryāṭ were in the middle. Now, Aryāṭ was described as a tall and thin man, and Abrahah was short and chubby. So Aryāṭ, he was able to strike Abrahah from the top, and he chopped off his nose, so Abrahah was called Abrahah al-Ashram — ashram means his nose is chopped off. When that happened, the bodyguards jumped in, and they killed Aryāṭ. He betrayed — obviously, this is against the rules — but the issue is over now, Aryāṭ is dead. Abrahah now took over, and he was the one ruling over Yemen.