[1906] Imām Aḥmad notes in his Musnad (no. 23661) that ʿAbdullāh Ibn Thaʿlabah Ibn Ṣuʿayr (رضي الله عنه) narrated that Abū Jahl, the head of the Deniers, sought God’s judgement on the eve of Badr by praying to Him saying: “O Allah, he ˹i.e. Muhammad (ﷺ)˺ caused severance of kinship relations and he brought us that which we do not know so annihilate him tomorrow. Then Allah sent down: “If you ˹Deniers˺ seek ˹Allah’s˺ arbitration, then the arbitration has come upon you…””.
[1907] That is, relinquish your ways of Associating with God and Denying the Message (cf. al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr).