Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-An'aam, Ayah 23
ثُمَّ لَمْ تَكُن فِتْنَتُهُمْ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوا۟ وَٱللَّهِ رَبِّنَا مَا كُنَّا مُشْرِكِينَ
Then there will be no [excuse upon] examination except they will say, "By Allah, our Lord, we were not those who associated."
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Then their dissension read accusative fitnatahum or nominative fitnatuhum their apology was read lam takun or lam yakun only to say in other words was only their saying ‘By God our Lord read rabbinā as an adjective of wa’Llāhi ‘by God’ or rabbanā as a vocative we were never idolaters’.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Then will they have no contention) excuse or answer (save that they will say: By Allah, our Lord, we never were idolaters).