Volume 6, Book 60, Number 175:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
When the Verse:– “If there are twenty steadfast amongst you, they will overcome two hundred.”
(8.65) was revealed, then it became obligatory for the Muslims that one (Muslim) should not flee
from ten (non-Muslims). Sufyan (the sub-narrator) once said, “Twenty (Muslims) should not flee be –
fore two hundred (non Muslims).” Then there was revealed: ‘But now Allah has lightened your
(task)..’ (8.66)
So it became obligatory that one-hundred (Muslims) should not flee before two hundred (non-
muslims). (Once Sufyan said extra, “The Verse: ‘Urge the believers to the fight. If there are twenty
steadfast amongst you (Muslims) ..’ was revealed.) Sufyan said, “Ibn Shabrama said, “I see that this or –
der is applicable to the obligation of enjoining good and forbidding evil.”