Which was revealed in Makkah

{بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ }

(In the Name of Allāh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

{لإِيلَـفِ قُرَيْشٍ * إِيلَـفِهِمْ رِحْلَةَ الشِّتَآءِ وَالصَّيْفِ * فَلْيَعْبُدُواْ رَبَّ هَـذَا الْبَيْتِ * الَّذِى أَطْعَمَهُم مِّن جُوعٍ وَءَامَنَهُم مِّنْ خوْفٍ }

(1. For the Īlāf of the Quraysh.)
(2. Their Ilāf caravans, in winter and in summer.)
(3. So, let them worship the Lord of this House.)
(4. Who has fed them against hunger, and has made them safe from fear.)
This Sūrah has been separated from the one that preceded it in the primary Mushaf (the original copy of `Uthmān). They (the Companions) wrote ``In the Name of Allāh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful'' on the line (i.e., the space) between these two Sūrahs. They did this even though this Sūrah is directly related to the one which precedes it, as Muhammad bin Ishāq and `Abdur-Rahmān bin Zayd bin Aslam have both clarified.

This is because the meaning of both of them is, ``We have prevented the Elephant from entering Makkah and We have destroyed its people in order to gather (Īlāf) the Quraysh, which means to unite them and bring them together safely in their city.''

It has also been said that the meaning of this (Īlāf) is what they would gather during their journey in the winter to Yemen and in the summer to Ash-Shām through trade and other than that.