—namely, the verse in al-Baqarah:

“When there came to them a Book from Allah confirming what they already possessed, and beforehand they had been praying for victory over the disbelievers; yet when there came to them that which they recognized, they refused to believe in it. So may Allah’s curse fall upon the disbelievers.” ⦗al-Baqarah 2:89⦘

Ibn Ishaq said: “Salih ibn Ibrahim ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Awf related to us; Yahya ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn As‘ad ibn Zurarah al-Ansari narrated to us; he said: Any one you choose of the men of my own clan told me, on the authority of Hassan ibn Thabit al-Ansari, who said:

‘By Allah, I was a youthful lad—seven or eight years old—fully conscious of everything I heard, when I heard a Jewish man proclaiming from atop a fortress…’