Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Israa, Ayah 76

وَإِن كَادُوا۟ لَيَسْتَفِزُّونَكَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُخْرِجُوكَ مِنْهَا ۖ وَإِذًۭا لَّا يَلْبَثُونَ خِلَٰفَكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًۭا

And indeed, they were about to drive you from the land to evict you therefrom. And then [when they do], they will not remain [there] after you, except for a little.

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(And they indeed wished to scare thee from the land) the land of Medina (that they might drive thee forth from thence) to Historic Syria, (and then) if they succeeded in driving you away from Medina (they would have stayed (there) but a little after thee) before We destroy them.

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When the Jews said to him ‘If you are a prophet then make your way to Syria for it is the land of prophets’ the following was revealed And indeed wa-in the particle in is softened they were about to provoke you out of the land the land of Medina to expel you from it but then had they expelled you they would not have remained after you in it except a little while after which they would have been destroyed.

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