Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Israa, Ayah 73
وَإِن كَادُوا۟ لَيَفْتِنُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَيْكَ لِتَفْتَرِىَ عَلَيْنَا غَيْرَهُۥ ۖ وَإِذًۭا لَّٱتَّخَذُوكَ خَلِيلًۭا
And indeed, they were about to tempt you away from that which We revealed to you in order to [make] you invent about Us something else; and then they would have taken you as a friend.
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(And they indeed strove hard) they almost succeeded (to beguile thee (Muhammad) away) to drive you away and make you slip (from that wherewith We have inspired thee) regarding the breaking of their idols, (that thou shouldst invent) that you should say (other than it against Us) other than what We commanded you to do: breaking their idols; (and then would they have accepted thee as a friend) because of following them. This verse was revealed about Thaqif.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
The following was revealed regarding the tribe of Thaqīf for they had asked him the Prophet s to declare their valley inviolable and implored him to grant them this request And indeed wa-in the particle in is softened they were about to they nearly did beguile you away from that which We revealed to you so that you might invent against Us something other than that; and then had you done that they would have taken you as a friend.