They stayed in Madinah but found its climate didn’t suit them, so they were asked to pitch their tents in the pastures nearby, and were given water to drink.
They subsequently attacked Muhammad’s shepherd Yasar, a freed slave, killed him, gouged his eyes out, and then drove off the camels.
He had their hands and feet cut off and their eyes gouged out with hot iron, in recompense for their behaviour, and then they were thrown on the stony ground until they died.
`Wage war' mentioned here means, oppose and contradict, and it includes disbelief, blocking roads and spreading fear in the fairways.
Abu Dawud and An-Nasa'i recorded that `Ikrimah said that Ibn `Abbas said that the Ayah, (The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land...) "Was revealed concerning the idolators, those among them who repent before being apprehended, they will still be liable for punishment for the crimes they committed."
[Tafsir ibn Kathir, Surah Maidah 5:39, "The Punishment of those who cause mischief in the Land"] [8] The event is also mentioned in the Sunni Hadith collection, Sahih Bukhari as follows: Then they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels, and they became unbelievers(apostates) after they were Muslims.