Surah Al-Qasas, Ayah 15
Quran 28:15 · The Stories · Makki · Para 20 · Page 387
وَدَخَلَ الْمَدِیْنَةَ عَلٰی حِیْنِ غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ اَهْلِهَا فَوَجَدَ فِیْهَا رَجُلَیْنِ یَقْتَتِلٰنِ ؗۗ هٰذَا مِنْ شِیْعَتِهٖ وَهٰذَا مِنْ عَدُوِّهٖ ۚ فَاسْتَغَاثَهُ الَّذِیْ مِنْ شِیْعَتِهٖ عَلَی الَّذِیْ مِنْ عَدُوِّهٖ ۙ فَوَكَزَهٗ مُوْسٰی فَقَضٰی عَلَیْهِ ؗۗ قَالَ هٰذَا مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّیْطٰنِ ؕ اِنَّهٗ عَدُوٌّ مُّضِلٌّ مُّبِیْنٌ ۟
Transliteration
Wadakhala almadeenata AAala heenighaflatin min ahliha fawajada feeha rajulayniyaqtatilani hatha min sheeAAatihi wahathamin AAaduwwihi fastaghathahu allathee minsheeAAatihi AAala allathee min AAaduwwihifawakazahu moosa faqada AAalayhi qala hathamin AAamali ashshaytani innahu AAaduwwun mudillunmubeen
Saheeh International
And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, "This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy."
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
Moses entered the city at a time when its inhabitants were unaware, and saw two men arguing and brawling. One was from the Israelites: Moses’s tribe, while the other was a Copt: Pharaoh’s people, who were Moses’s enemies. The one who was from the Israelites sought assistance from Moses against the Copt, so Moses struck him with a punch and because of his power, it killed him. Moses said, “This is from the adornment and deception of Satan. Indeed, Satan is a deceiving enemy of whoever follows him; he is open in his enmity. Whatever has happened here is due to his enmity and deception; he wants me to err.”
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
Explains 28:14–28:17 together — read it on 28:14