Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Anfaal, Ayah 38
قُل لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِن يَنتَهُوا۟ يُغْفَرْ لَهُم مَّا قَدْ سَلَفَ وَإِن يَعُودُوا۟ فَقَدْ مَضَتْ سُنَّتُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Say to those who have disbelieved [that] if they cease, what has previously occurred will be forgiven for them. But if they return [to hostility] - then the precedent of the former [rebellious] peoples has already taken place.
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Say to the disbelievers such as Abū Sufyān and his companions that if they desist from unbelief and from waging war against the Prophet s that which is past of their deeds will be forgiven them; but if they return to waging war against him the way of dealing with the ancients has already gone before! that is Our way in dealing with them by destroying them We will do the same with these ones.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Tell) O Muhammad, (those who disbelieve) Abu Sufyan and his host (that if they cease) disbelief, idolatry, idol worship and fighting Muhammad (pbuh) (that which is past) of disbelief, idolatry, idol worship and fighting against the Prophet (pbuh) (will be forgiven them; but if they return (thereto)) i.e. to fighting Muhammad (pbuh) (then the example of the men of old hath already gone) that victory is given to Allah's friends against their enemies, such as was the case on the Day of Badr.