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The following was revealed regarding the [tribe of] Thaqīf, for they had asked him [the Prophet] "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" to declare their valley inviolable and implored him [to grant them this request]: And indeed (wa-in, [the particle in is] softened) they were about to, they nearly did, beguile you away from that which We revealed to you, so that you might invent against Us [something] other than that; and then, had you done that, they would have taken you as a friend.