Tafsir of Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:154

Translation of the meaning

Then after distress, He sent down upon you security [in the form of] drowsiness, overcoming a faction of you, while another faction worried about themselves, thinking of Allāh other than the truth - the thought of ignorance, saying, "Is there anything for us [to have done] in this matter?" Say, "Indeed, the matter belongs completely to Allāh." They conceal within themselves what they will not reveal to you. They say, "If there was anything we could have done in the matter, we [i.e., some of us] would not have been killed right here." Say, "Even if you had been inside your houses, those decreed to be killed would have come out to their death beds." [It was] so that Allāh might test what is in your breasts and purify what is in your hearts. And Allāh is Knowing of that within the breasts.

Imam Ibn al-Qayyim

فليس مقصودهم بالكلمة الأولى والثانية إثبات القدر ورد الأمر كله إلى الله، ولو كان ذلك مقصودهم بالكلمة الأولى لما ذموا عليه،«زاد المعاد في هدي خير العباد» 3/212

وما جرى عليكم من الهزيمة والقتل فبأمره الكوني الذي لا سبيل إلى دفعه، سواء كان لكم من الأمر شيء أو لم يكن لكم،«زاد المعاد في هدي خير العباد» 3/212

What he quoted from others

غير واحد من المفسرين أقرّه «هو التكذيب بالقدر وظنهم أن الأمر لو كان إليهم وكان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه تبعا لهم يسمعون منهم لما أصابهم القتل، ولكان النصر والظفر لهم»«زاد المعاد في هدي خير العباد» 3/212