The country is yours in which there are your properties, children, and women.

The country is yours in which there are your properties, children, and women. You cannot leave it to elsewhere. Quraysh and Ghatafan have come to fight [1] Qur'an, 24:62. Muhammad and his companions, and you have supported them against him. Their country, properties, and women are in other than it (this country) and so they are not like you.

If they find an opportunity, they will make use of it; otherwise, they will go back to their country and leave you alone with him (the Prophet), and you are not able to stand against him when you are alone before him.

Therefore, do not fight with these people (of Quraysh and other tribes) until you will take hostages from their notables to be in your hands as insurance to you in order to fight with them against Muhammad until you will defeat him.” They all said, “You have well advised.” They all trusted in his advice. Then, he went to the people of Quraysh and said to Abu Sufyan and the other chiefs with him, “You have already known my love to you and my desertion to Muhammad.

I have been informed of something that I feel, due to my loyalty to you, I must tell you about it, but you have to keep it secret.” They said, “Yes, we do.” He said to them, “Know that the Jews regretted what they did to Muhammad, and they sent him a messenger telling him that they regretted what they did to him, and that if it would please him, they would take from Quraysh and Ghatafan some notables as hostages, and then they would hand them over to Muhammad to kill them, and then they (the Jews) would be with him.

So, if the Jews ask you for some men as hostages, do not give them even one man from you.” Abu Sufyan approved Nu’aym’s saying. He sent Ikrima bin Abi Jahl with some men to the Bani Quraydhah asking them to join Quraysh to fight against the Prophet (a.s.).

The Jews of the Bani Quraydhah said to them, “We will not fight with you except if you give us some men from you as hostages in our hands and then we will fight against Muhammad.” The delegation went back telling Quraysh and Ghatafan what Bani Quraydhaha had said, and so they trusted what Nu’aym said.

They said, “By Allah, we do not hand over to them anyone from us.” Thus, the Muslims were safe from the Jews of the Bani Quraydhah who did not join Quraysh or participate in the war against the Muslims. [1] The crossing of the trench Some forces of the enemy could cross the trench and began challenging the Muslim forces for fighting.