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Nor against those who, when they came to you so that you might give them a mount, [to ride] with you on the raid - these were seven men of the Ansār; but it is also said that they were the Banū Muqrin - you having said to them, 'I cannot find [a mount] whereon to mount you' (this [last sentence] is a circumstantial qualifier), turned back (this is the response to the [clause beginning with] idhā, 'when'), that is, they departed, their eyes flowing, pouring, with tears (min al-dam'i: min is explicative) for sorrow that they could not find the means to expend, for the [campaign] struggle.