﴿ بَلْ عَجِبُوٓا۟ أَن جَآءَهُم مُّنذِرٌۭ مِّنْهُمْ فَقَالَ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ هَٰذَا شَىْءٌ عَجِيبٌ ﴾

“But nay - they deem it strange that a warner should have come unto them from their own midst; and so these deniers of the truth are saying, “A strange thing is this!”

(Nay, but they marvel) i.e. the Quraysh; and it is because they marvelled that Allah made this oath: they marvelled when they were told they will be resurrected after death; He said: in fact the Quraysh, among whom Ubayy and Umayyah the sons of Khalaf, Munbih and Nabih the son of Hajjaj, marvelled (that a warner) a warning messenger (of their own) from their own lineage (hath come unto them; and the disbelievers) the disbelievers of Mecca: Ubayy, Umayyah, Munbih and Nabih (say: This) which Muhammad (pbuh) says, i.e. that they will be resurrected after death, (is a strange thing) for he says: