To whom does the description "those before them" (alladhīna min qablihim) refer in this āyah?

Imām Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597/1201) summarized the scholars' opinions in his book "Zād al-Masīr" as follows:

1.The Jews. [Ibn ʿAbbās, Mujāhid]

1. The Jews and the Christians. [Al-Suddī from his teachers]
2. The Jews, the Christians, and other disbelievers. [Qatādah]