The Hypocrites Mock the Prophecy of Kisra and Qaysar

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains:

With Banū Qurayẓah's betrayal now confirmed, Sūrat al-Aḥzāb records that the hypocrites (munāfiqūn) sought permission to leave the siege entirely, citing concern for their unprotected families as a cover for what was in truth simple cowardice in the face of battle. Ibn Hishām records that one of them openly mocked the Prophet ﷺ before the gathered Muslims, notably referring to him by name rather than by his proper title, a habit the Qur'ān itself singles out as a marker of the hypocrites' lack of adab, sneering that he had once promised them the treasures of the Persian and Roman emperors (Kisrā and Qayṣar), and now they could not even attend to their own basic needs in safety.

Dr. Qadhi highlights the irony this mockery would carry within less than a decade: the Muslim conquests of Persia and the Levant, beginning at the end of Abū Bakr's khilāfah and continuing through the early years of ʿUmar's, including the decisive battles of al-Qādisiyyah and al-Yarmūk, saw the Muslims literally inherit the wealth and territory of both empires exactly as foretold, fulfilling the Qur'ānic response to such impatience: "but you are a people who are hasty" (wa lākinnakum qawmun tastaʿjilūn). What the hypocrite mocked as an impossible promise came to pass within a single generation.