"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...