سَبَأ : ٢٠

  • وَلَقَدۡ And certainly
  • صَدَّقَ found true
  • عَلَيۡهِمۡ about them
  • إِبۡلِيسُ Iblis
  • ظَنَّهُۥ his assumption
  • فَٱتَّبَعُوهُ so they followed him
  • إِلَّا except
  • فَرِيقٗا a group
  • مِّنَ of
  • ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ the believers
And Iblees had already confirmed through them1 his assumption, so they followed him, except for a party of believers.
Footnotes
1

i.e., the people of Saba’ or mankind in general.

[1229] That mankind could readily be misled by him.

And verily Iblees proved true (read sadaqa or saddaqa) his opinion of them, that is, of the disbelievers among them - [the folk of] Sheba - which was that by his tempting them to go astray, they would follow him. So they followed him ([if the verb above is read] sadaqa, this would mean that 'he was right in his opinion', and [if read] saddaqa, it would mean that 'he found this [opinion of his] to be true') - [all] except a group of the believers (mina'l-mu'mineena, [the min, 'of'] is explicative [not partitive], in other words, [all except that group] who were the believers: they did not follow him).