Verse 29:60 is the only verse in this passage with a report. Al-Wahidi reports from Ibn Umar that he went with the Prophet into a garden belonging to the Ansar. The Prophet picked up dates and ate, and said this was the fourth morning he had not tasted food. He said that if he wished, his Lord would give him a kingdom like that of Chosroes and Caesar. Then he asked Ibn Umar how he would fare among people who store up a year's provision and whose certainty is weak. Ibn Umar says they had not left before this verse came down. Al-Fahl grades the chain very weak because one of its narrators, al-Jarrah ibn Minhal, is accused of fabricating hadith.

Verses 30:1-5 came down after a Persian army defeated the Romans near Adhri'at and Busra, at the edge of Syria closest to Arabia. Al-Wahidi reports from the exegetes that this troubled the Prophet and his Companions in Mecca, while the Meccan pagans gloated that they would likewise defeat the Muslims. In a second report, Abu Said al-Khudri says the Romans then beat the Persians on the day of Badr, and the believers rejoiced. Al-Fahl grades that chain weak but notes that al-Tirmidhi rated a version of it fair.

Verse 31:6 is about people who buy idle talk. Al-Kalbi and Muqatil say it came down about al-Nadr ibn al-Harith. He traded in Persia and bought Persian stories, such as tales of Rustam, Isfandiyar and the Persian kings. He told them to the Quraysh so that they would stop listening to the Quran. Mujahid says it came down about buying singing girls. Al-Wahidi also reports from Abu Umamah that the Prophet forbade teaching or selling singing girls and said this verse came down about such things. Al-Fahl grades that chain weak. A report from Ibn Abbas says it came down about a man who bought a slave girl to sing to him night and day.

Al-Wahidi says verse 31:15 came down about Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, pointing back to his account under Surat al-Ankabut. He says the words "follow the way of those who turn to Me" came down about Abu Bakr. Through Ata, he reports from Ibn Abbas that after Abu Bakr became Muslim, Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Sa'id ibn Zayd, Uthman, Talhah and al-Zubayr came and asked whether he had believed in Muhammad. He said yes, so they went to the Prophet and believed too. Allah then revealed this to Sa'd, meaning Abu Bakr's way.

Verse 31:27 came down about the Jewish rabbis of Madinah, al-Wahidi says, citing the exegetes. In Makkah the Jews had asked the Prophet about the spirit, and Allah revealed that people have been given only a little knowledge (17:85). After the Hijrah the rabbis asked whether this meant them. They said they had the Torah, which holds knowledge of everything, and that the Quran calls wisdom 'much good' (2:269). How could that be 'little'? The Prophet said the Torah is little next to Allah's knowledge. Then this verse was revealed. No chain is given, and al-Fahl gives no verdict.

Verse 31:34: al-Wahidi says, naming no authority, that it came down about al-Harith ibn Amr, a desert Arab. He asked the Prophet when the Hour would come. He also asked when rain would fall on his drought-stricken land, what his pregnant wife would bear, and in what land he would die. Iyas ibn Salamah reports from his father that a man leading a pregnant mare asked the Prophet when the Hour would come and what his mare carried. The Prophet answered that only Allah knows the unseen. The man had come intending to kill him. Al-Wahidi adds Ibn Umar's report, recorded by al-Bukhari, that the Prophet named five keys of the unseen that only Allah knows.

Al-Wahidi reports from Anas ibn Malik that verse 32:16 came down about Companions who prayed between the sunset and night prayers. In one version they were the Ansar, who stayed with the Prophet until the night prayer before going home. Al-Hasan and Mujahid say it was about those who rise at night to pray. Al-Wahidi supports this with Mu'adh's report that the Prophet recited the verse after naming night prayer among the doors of good. Al-Fahl grades that chain weak but the text sound through other routes. From Ibn Abbas, verse 32:18 came down about Ali and al-Walid ibn Uqbah: al-Walid boasted he was the better fighter and speaker, and Ali called him a rebel (fasiq). Al-Fahl grades this chain weak.

Al-Wahidi says, without a chain, that verse 33:1 came down after Uhud. Abu Sufyan, Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl and Abu al-Awar al-Sulami had come under safe conduct and asked the Prophet to say their idols could intercede. The Prophet refused Umar leave to kill them and had him expel them. The 'two hearts' clause of 33:4 is about Jamil ibn Mamar al-Fihri, who claimed two hearts yet fled Badr holding one sandal in his hand. Al-Fahl notes that a version from Ibn Abbas has a weak narrator. The adoption clause is about Zayd ibn Harithah. Ibn Umar says people called him Zayd ibn Muhammad until 33:5 came down, a report also found in al-Bukhari.

Verse 33:23 came down about Anas ibn al-Nadr, al-Wahidi reports from his nephew Anas ibn Malik. Anas ibn al-Nadr missed Badr and vowed that Allah would see what he would do in the next battle. At Uhud he fought until he was killed, with more than eighty wounds, and only his sister knew him by his fingertips. Muslim and al-Bukhari record this report. Al-Wahidi also says the words "some have fulfilled their pledge, others are waiting" came down about Talhah ibn Ubayd Allah, who stood by the Prophet at Uhud until his hand was injured. Ali gives the same account. Isa ibn Talhah reports that the Prophet called Talhah "one of those who fulfilled their pledge." Al-Fahl grades that chain sound.

Al-Wahidi gives differing reports on verse 33:33. From Abu Said, it came down about five people: the Prophet, Ali, Fatimah, al-Hasan and al-Husayn. Al-Fahl grades this chain weak. Umm Salamah reportedly said that it came down while those four were eating with the Prophet in her house. He covered them with a cloak and prayed that Allah purify them as his household. Al-Fahl grades this chain weak because one narrator is unknown, but he notes that a sound route also exists. From Ibn Abbas, the verse came down about the Prophet's wives; al-Fahl grades this chain weak. Ikrimah also said it was about the wives, and he proclaimed this in the market.