"And if We had decreed upon them, 'Kill yourselves or leave your homes,' they would not have done it, except for a few of them." Al-Kalbi said: There were men from the believers and men from the Jews sitting [together], and the Jews said: "Allah has accepted our repentance for a matter, and we have repented to Him for it, and no one else would have done what we did; we [killed] ourselves in obedience to Allah until He was pleased with us." Then Thabit ibn...
﴿وَلَوْ أَنَّا كَتَبْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ أَنِ اقْتُلُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ أَوِ اخْرُجُوا مِنْ دِيَارِكُمْ مَا فَعَلُوهُ إِلا قَلِيلٌ مِنْهُم﴾ قَالَ الْكَلْبِيّ: كَانَ رجال من الْمُؤمنِينَ وَرِجَال من الْيَهُود [جلوساٍ فَقَالَت الْيَهُود: لقد استتابنا الله من أَمر فتبنا إِلَيْهِ مِنْهُ، وَمَا كَانَ ليفعله أحد غَيرنَا [قتلنَا] أَنْفُسنَا فِي طَاعَة الله حتَّى رَضِي عَنَّا، فَقَالَ ثَابت بن
