Aal-i-Imraan • EN-ASBAB-AL-NUZUL-BY-AL-WAHIDI
﴿ وَإِذْ غَدَوْتَ مِنْ أَهْلِكَ تُبَوِّئُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَقَٰعِدَ لِلْقِتَالِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ ﴾
“AND [remember, O Prophet, the day] when thou didst set out from thy home at early morn to place the believers in battle array. And God was all-hearing, all-knowing”
(And when thou settedst forth at daybreak from thy housefolk�) [3:121]. This was revealed about the Battle of Uhud. Sa'id ibn Muhammad al-Zahid informed us> Abu 'Ali al-Faqih> Abu'l-Qasim al-Baghawi> Yahya ibn 'Abd al-Hamid al-Hammani> 'Abd Allah ibn Ja'far al-Makhrami> Ibn 'Awn> al-Miswar ibn Makhramah who said: �I said to 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf: 'Uncle, tell me about what happened to you at Uhud?' He said: 'Read the first one hundred and twenty verses of Al 'Imran you will find your answer: (And when thou settedst forth at daybreak from thy housefolk) up to His saying (Then, after grief, He sent down security for you�) [3:154]' �.