Aal-i-Imraan • EN-ASBAB-AL-NUZUL-BY-AL-WAHIDI
﴿ لَن يَضُرُّوكُمْ إِلَّآ أَذًۭى ۖ وَإِن يُقَٰتِلُوكُمْ يُوَلُّوكُمُ ٱلْأَدْبَارَ ثُمَّ لَا يُنصَرُونَ ﴾
“[but] these can never inflict more than a passing hurt on you; and if they fight against you, they will turn their backs upon you [in flight], and will not be succoured.”
(They will not harm you save a trifling hurt�) [3:111]. Said Muqatil: �The Jewish chieftains Ka�b, Bahra, al-Nu�man, Abu Rafi�, Abu Yasir and Ibn Surya went to �Abd Allah ibn Salam and his followers, who had believed, and hurt them because of their acceptance of Islam and so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse�.