Surah At-Tawbah, Ayah 90
Quran 9:90 · The Repentance · Madani · Para 10 · Page 201
وَجَآءَ الْمُعَذِّرُوْنَ مِنَ الْاَعْرَابِ لِیُؤْذَنَ لَهُمْ وَقَعَدَ الَّذِیْنَ كَذَبُوا اللّٰهَ وَرَسُوْلَهٗ ؕ سَیُصِیْبُ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ اَلِیْمٌ ۟
Transliteration
Wajaa almuAAaththiroona minaal-aAArabi liyu/thana lahum waqaAAada allatheenakathaboo Allaha warasoolahu sayuseebu allatheenakafaroo minhum AAathabun aleem
Saheeh International
And those with excuses among the bedouins came to be permitted [to remain], and they who had lied to Allāh and His Messenger sat [at home]. There will strike those who disbelieved among them a painful punishment.
Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir
A group of people from the desert Arabs of Medina and the surrounding areas came with excuses to Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him), so that he would give them permission to remain behind from going out and striving in Allah’s path. Another group of people who did not even make any excuse also stayed behind from going out because they did not accept the Prophet and they did not have faith in Allah’s promise. A painful punishment will afflict these people because of their disbelief.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged)
And those who made excuses from the bedouins came asking your permission to exempt them (from the battle), and those who had lied to Allah and His Messenger sat at home (without asking the permission for it); a painful torment will seize those of them who disbelieve (90)
Allah describes here the condition of the bedouins who lived around Al-Madinah, who asked for permission to remain behind from Jihad when they came to the Messenger ﷺ to explain to him their weakness and inability to join the fighting. Ad-Dahhak said that Ibn 'Abbas said that they were those who had valid excuses, for Allah said next,
وَقَعَدَ الَّذِينَ كَذَبُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ
(and those who had lied to Allah and His Messenger sat at home), and did not ask for permission for it; and Allah warned them of painful punishment,
سَيُصِيبُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
(a painful torment will seize those of them who disbelieve.)