Many Qur’anic passages refer to a historically known event without narrating it as a complete chronicle. Examples include Badr in al-Anfāl, Uḥud in Āl ʿImrān, the Trench in al-Aḥzāb, the treaty of Ḥudaybiyyah in al-Fatḥ, Banū al-Naḍīr in al-Ḥashr, and Tabūk in al-Tawbah (Barāʾah).
In such passages, an interpreter needs to connect the wording, instruction, or allusion to its proper event. Extensive and unrelated narrative details do not automatically improve interpretation. The required context is that which removes a real obstacle to understanding the verse.