The scholar Abu Ali Hasan bin Mohammad Al-Tousi narrated from his blessed father the scholar AbiJaafar Al-Tousi. from the scholar Abu Abdillah Mohammad bin Mohammad bin No’man, from Abu Bakr Mohammad bin Omar Al-Jo’aabi, from Abul Abbas Ahmad bin Mohammad bin Saeed bin Oqdah, from Jaafar bin Abdullah, from Saadan bin Saeed, from Sufyan bin Ibrahim Al-Ghamedi Al-Qaz’i, from JAAFAR BIN MOHAMMAD (ASWS), who said:
We face the difficulties of life before you just as we experience ease before you. I swear by ALLAH (SWT) that He accomplishes His victory using you (the Shia) just as He used the stones.
(Referring to Aam Al-Feel (the year of the Elephant), the year in which Abraha tried to destroy the Kaaba with elephants but ALLAH (SWT) sent birds that were carrying stones to kill them)
(Ref:Amaali of Mufid 31)