Transliteration:( Wa laqad kuntum tamannnawnal mawta min qabli an talqawhu faqad ra aitumoohu wa antum tanzuroon )
303. By this is meant those Companions who could not participate in the Battle of Badr were full of regret and desirous of participating in future battles. But in the Battle of Uhud their feet were uprooted i.e. they took to flight. This verse gives a hint that one should not wish for death as it appears in the Hadith.
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The tafsir of Surah Imran verse 143 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Imran ayat 137 which provides the complete commentary from verse 137 through 143.
(3:143) You previously longed for death (in the way of Allah): now you have faced it, observing it with your own eyes.[102]
102. This is with reference to those Companions who had urged the Prophet to go out of Madina and take on the enemy there because of their ardent desire for martyrdom. (See Ibn Sa’d, Tabaqat, vol. 2, p. 38 – Ed.)
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