[714] The Qur’anic lexical term tahussūnahum is unique. In a sense, it is semantically related to ‘sensing’ whereby when one is killed, one loses one’s sense of perception (cf. al-Shinqīṭī).
[715] Victory after the Deniers rout from the battle-ground. (al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī).
[716] The first party are the archers who left their positions to collect the spoils, while the latter are those who remained at their posts. (al-Ṭabarī, al-Wāḥidī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Saʿdī)
[717] When their hearts turned away from obeying the Messenger (ﷺ), they were made to forget about their enemy and take due guard against them. (al-Ṭabarī, al-Wāḥidī, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr)
[718] This is a synopsis of the events of the Battle of Uḥud, where succinctly put: 1) God fulfilled His promise of victory to the Believers and made them run down and kill their enemy; 2) yet, when they saw that their desired goal, victory, was accomplished some of the archers lost conviction upon seeing that the spoils of war were being collected; 3) so, they disputed with their leader, who was of the opinion that they remained put as they had been bid by the Prophet (ﷺ); 4) when they broke rank and left their positions, the enemy, who had been lying low in hiding, bore down on them; 5) thereafter a commotion ensued and the archers fled. The rest of the account carries on in the next aya.