Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Ahzaab, Ayah 10
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When they came at you from above you and from below you in other words from the higher side of the valley and from its lower side from the east and from the west and when the eyes turned away in fear from everything to gaze at their enemies approaching from every side and the hearts lept to the throats hanājir the plural of hunjura which lies at the bottom of the gullet out of intense fear while you entertained all sorts of different thoughts concerning God some of assistance some of despair;
Related Hadiths
" When they came upon you from above you and from below you and when the eyes turned dull and the hearts rose up to the throats" (xxxiii. 10) pertain to the day of Ditch.
As regards the following Qur'anic Verse:-- "When they came on you from above and from below you (from east and west of the valley) and when the eyes grew wild and the hearts reached up to the throat...
"When the heads of 'Ubaidullah bin Ziyad and his companions were brought, they were stacked in the Masjid at Ar-Rahbah. So I came to them and they were saying: 'It has come, it has come." And behold, ...
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(When they) the disbelievers of Mecca (came upon you from above you) from above the valley: Talhah Ibn Khuwaylid al-Asdi and his host (and from below you) from below the valley: Abu'l-A'war al-Aslami and his host and Abu Sufyan and his host, (and when eyes grew wild) when the eyes of the hypocrites grew wild (and hearts) the hearts of the hypocrites (reached to the throats) because of fear, (and ye were imagining vain thoughts concerning Allah) and thought, O host of hypocrites, that Allah will not help His prophet.