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Those to whom (alladhīna, substitutes for the previous alladhīna, 'those who', or an adjectival qualification [of it]) people, that is, Nu'aym b. Mas'ūd al-Ashja'ī,¹³ said, 'The people, Abū Sufyān and his companions, have gathered, their multitudes, against you, in order to exterminate you, therefore fear them', and do not go out to [encounter] them; but that, saying, increased them in faith, in their belief in Allahu ta’ālā and in certainty, and they said, 'Allahu ta’ālā is sufficient for us, He will deal fully for us with their affair; an excellent Guardian (wakīl) is He' , the One to whom the matter is entrusted. They thus set out with the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" and arrived at the market-fair of Badr, but Allahu ta’ālā had cast terror into the hearts of Abū Sufyān and his followers and so they did not turn up. They [the believers] had merchandise with them, and so they traded and made profits. Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: