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The Madinan Period · 5 AH

The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)

A confederacy of Quraysh, Ghatafan and their allies besieged Madinah. On Salman al-Farisi's counsel the Muslims dug a trench; after weeks of siege, wind and unseen forces scattered the confederates without a pitched battle.

Sources

  • Ibn Hisham, al-Sirah3/224

۞ Related Verses

Occasion of revelation

"O you who believe, remember the favor of Allah upon you when armies came"

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱذۡكُرُواْ نِعۡمَةَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيۡكُمۡ إِذۡ جَآءَتۡكُمۡ جُنُودٞ فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِيحٗا وَجُنُودٗا لَّمۡ تَرَوۡهَاۚ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ بَصِيرًا

O you who have believed, remember the favor of Allah upon you when armies came to [attack] you and We sent upon them a wind and armies [of angels] you did not see. And ever is Allah, of what you do, Seeing

Al-Ahzab 33:9