Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Ar-Room, Ayah 4
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in a few years bid‘ usually means between three and nine or ten years. So the two armies met again seven years after this former encounter and the Byzantines defeated the Persians. To God belongs the command before and after that is before the defeat of the Byzantines and thereafter that is to say the Persian victory at first and the Byzantine victory later were the result of God’s command in other words His will and on that day the day when the Byzantines will be victorious the believers shall rejoice
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Within a few years) at the beginning of the seventh year from now; Abu Bakr al-Siddiq betted ten camels on this against Ubayy Ibn Khalaf al-Jumahi (Allah's is the command) victory and the upper hand to Muhammad (pbuh) (in the former case) before the Persians defeated the Romans (and in the latter) and after the Persian defeated the Romans; it is also said that this means: before and after the victory of the Romans against the Persians; it is also said: to Allah belongs knowledge, power, will, before the beginning of creation and after the evanescence of creation; and it is also said that this means: Allah was Commander before and after the creation of those He commanded just as He was Creator before and after the existence of creation, and Provider before and after the existence of those for whom He provided, and Master before and after the existence of His subjects (and in that day) when the Romans will defeat the Persians and also when He gives victory to Muhammad (pbuh) over the disbelievers of Mecca, on the Day of Badr, or on the Day of al-Hudaybiyyah, (believers will rejoice