Mujahid said, “It refers to the east wind (al-sabā); it was sent against the Confederates on the Day of the Trench until it overturned their cooking pots and uprooted their tents.

‘And forces you did not see’—that is, the angels. In Sahih Muslim, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbas, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

‘I was granted victory by the east wind (al-sabā), and ʿĀd were destroyed by the west wind (al-dabūr).’

The full account of the Confederates—how the wind and the angels were dispatched against them and how they were defeated without fighting—is well known in the books of military expeditions and prophetic biography.

[His, peace be upon him, control over living creatures as a sign of prophethood]

The third category concerns his control over living creatures: humans, jinn, and beasts.