Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Anfaal, Ayah 37
لِيَمِيزَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْخَبِيثَ مِنَ ٱلطَّيِّبِ وَيَجْعَلَ ٱلْخَبِيثَ بَعْضَهُۥ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍۢ فَيَرْكُمَهُۥ جَمِيعًۭا فَيَجْعَلَهُۥ فِى جَهَنَّمَ ۚ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ
[This is] so that Allah may distinguish the wicked from the good and place the wicked some of them upon others and heap them all together and put them into Hell. It is those who are the losers.
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that God may distinguish read li-yamīza or li-yumayyiza is semantically connected to takūnu ‘it will be’ from the previous verse the wicked the disbeliever from the good the believer and place the wicked one upon another and heap them up all together and put them in Hell those they are the losers.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(That Allah may separate the wicked from the good) the disbeliever from the believer, the hypocrite from the sincere and the corrupt from the righteous. (The wicked will He place piece upon piece) gather together, (and heap them all together) i.e. the wicked, (and consign them) cast (unto hell. Such verily are the losers) in that they be punished.