Surah At Tawbah Tafseer

ثُمَّ أَنَزلَ اللّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ

Then Allah did send down His Sakinah on His Messenger,

He sent down tranquility and reassurance to His Messenger,

وَعَلَى الْمُوْمِنِينَ

and on the believers,

who remained with him,

وَأَنزَلَ جُنُودًا لَّمْ تَرَوْهَا

and sent down forces which you saw not, (this refers to angels).

وَعذَّبَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ وَذَلِكَ جَزَاء الْكَافِرِينَ

and punished the disbelievers. Such is the recompense of disbelievers.

Imam Abu Jafar bin Jarir (At-Tabari) said that Al-Qasim narrated to them, that Al-Hasan bin Arafah said that Al-Mu`tamir bin Sulayman said from `Awf bin Abi Jamilah Al-Arabi who said that he heard Abdur-Rahman, the freed slave of Ibn Barthan saying,

"A man who participated in Hunayn with the idolators narrated to me, `When we met the Messenger of Allah and his Companions on the day of Hunayn, they did not remain in battle more than the time it takes to milk a sheep! When we defeated them, we pursued them until we ended at the rider of the white mule, the Messenger of Allah. At that time, men with white handsome faces intercepted us and said:`Disgraced be the faces! Go back. So we ran away, but they followed us. That was the end for us."'

Allah said,

ثُمَّ يَتُوبُ اللّهُ مِن بَعْدِ ذَلِكَ عَلَى مَن يَشَاء وَاللّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ