Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Saad, Ayah 11
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A routed mahzūmun is an adjectival qualification of jundun ‘host’ host is all that they are in other words they are nothing but a despicable host nothing more — in their denial of you — from among the factions mina’l-ahzābi also an adjectival qualification of jundun in other words they are like those hosts of factions who were in confederation against prophets before you these were defeated and destroyed and likewise We shall destroy these people.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(A defeated) and slain (host are (all) the factions) of disbelievers: the disbelievers of Mecca (that are there) they were defeated and killed on the Day of Badr when they intended to kill the Prophet (pbuh).