Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Aadiyaat, Ayah 5
فَوَسَطْنَ بِهِۦ جَمْعًا
Arriving thereby in the center collectively,
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cleaving therewith with the dust a host of the enemy that is to say cutting right into their centre! the verb is supplemented to the noun in the above instances because it serves to explain the verbal action in other words wa’llātī ‘adawna fa-awrayna fa-agharna ‘by those that charge then strike sparks then raid’.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
Cleaving, as one, the centre (of the foe)) the above can also be understood as follow: Allah swears by the pilgrims' horses and camels when they return from 'Arafah to Muzdalifah snorting and striking sparks of fire; it is also said the latter means: performing acts which leads them to safety, i.e. the pilgrimage. And He swears by these when they go at dawn from Muzdalifah to Mina in the evening, leaving trails of dust and surrounding their enemies. Allah swore by all these.