Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Hujuraat, Ayah 4
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(Lo! those who call thee from behind the private apartment) this was revealed about a folk from Banu 'Anbar, from the Khuza'ah tribe to whom the Prophet (pbuh) sent a military expedition under the leadership of 'Uyaynah Ibn Hisn al-Fazari. When they heard of the advance of this expedition towards them, they fled, leaving behind their wives and children and properties. Their wives and children were taken captive and brought to the Prophet (pbuh). The men who fled went to Medina to ransom their wives and children and entered the city at the time of the siesta. They called: �O Muhammad, come out to see us�, while he was sleeping. Allah censured them for doing so, saying: (Lo! those who call you from behind the private apartment most of them) all of them (have no sense) do not understand Allah's command or divine Oneness nor the reverence due to Allah's Messenger.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
The following was revealed regarding a group of people who came to see the Prophet s during the midday resting period while he was in his house and called out to him Truly those who call you from behind the apartments the private chambers of his womenfolk hujurāt is the plural of hujra which is an area of ground on which stones are laid yuhjaru ‘alayhi to form a wall or the like and it happened that each one of them called out in that rough and crude Bedouin manner from behind one of the apartments as they did not know in which apartment he was most of them do not understand given the way in which they acted your exalted status and the reverence that befits it.