This verse and the next two verses are said to have been revealed about a man named: `AKHNAS - IBN - SHRIGH' who was a handsome, and eloquent man, with a smooth tongue by which he indulged in plausible-talk with many oaths, and pretended to be a worldly wise Muslim, but when he went away, and out of the sight of the prophet, he proved to be a real enemy of Islam and Muslims.
In fact he was a true hypocrite, and a false pretender to virtue and piety! In an incident he wildly put to fire the crops and farms, and killed many of the Muslim's domestic animals in vain.