battle of khandaq/trench

• what year did this take place

  627
• banu nadir had broken

  their treaty agreements because they were exiled and wanted revenge
• they planned to

  kill the prophet
• who did they plan the attacks with

  the makkans and Arab tribes
• They had how many men

  10,000 men and 1500 camels
• the muslims were

  3000 men
• who suggested the trench idea

  salman al farsi
• who joined the makkans

  hypocrites in madeenah
• who didn't initially want to break their agreements with the prophet but were later convinced to help quraysh

  BANU QURAYZA
• there was little


  food and water
• what did jabir do

  he invited the prophet to eat after slaughtering a sheep
• prophet fed


  whole army with ONE ANIMAL
• quraysh tried to


  cross the trench
• a few ... managed

  riders managed to cross a part that was narrower
• who fought them off

  Ali
• the siege ran into

  weeks
• the prophet used strategic


  skills to create mistrust between the alliances
• they gave up after

  a storm for 3 days prevented them from lighting fires, cooking and keeping warm
• banu ... were


  qurayza were punished for their treachery by their own laws meaning death for some of them