Accordingly, the Two Ṣaḥīḥs relate—on the authority of Abū Hurayrah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would say:

“There is no god but Allah alone: He fulfilled His promise, gave victory to His servant, strengthened His hosts, and He alone routed the Confederates; nothing remains after Him.”

His statement, “And Allah spared the believers fighting” (Qur’an 33:25), signals the end of warfare between the two sides, and so it came to pass: Quraysh never again fought the Muslims. Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq reports that when the people withdrew from the Trench the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said—according to what has reached us—“Quraysh will not attack you after this year of yours; rather, you will attack them.” Quraysh indeed never attacked again, while he continued to campaign against them until Allah granted him the conquest of Mecca. This is the transmission of Ibn Isḥāq.

Imām Aḥmad also recorded—through Yaḥyā, from Sufyān, from Abū Isḥāq, from Sulaymān ibn Ṣurad—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Now we shall march against them, and they will not march against us.” Al-Bukhārī narrated the same wording from Isrāʾīl and Sufyān al-Thawrī, both from Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, from Sulaymān ibn Ṣurad.

Ibn Isḥāq states that six Muslims were martyred on the Day of the Trench. Three belonged to Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal: Saʿd ibn Muʿādh—whose death will be recounted at length—Anas ibn Aws ibn ʿAtik ibn ʿAmr, and ʿAbd Allah ibn Sahl. In addition there were al-Ṭufayl ibn al-Nuʿmān and Thaʿlabah ibn Ghanamah, both of the Jusham branch of Banū Salamah, and Kaʿb ibn Zayd al-Najjārī, who was struck by a stray arrow and killed.

As for the idolaters, three were killed: Munabbih ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿUbayd ibn al-Sabbāq ibn ʿAbd al-Dār, who was hit by an arrow and later died in Mecca; Nufal ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Mughīrah, who tried to leap the trench on horseback, fell in, and was slain there—his people offered a large ransom for his body, as noted earlier; and ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Wudd al-ʿĀmirī, killed by ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.

Ibn Hishām reports—through a trustworthy source who in turn related it from al-Zuhrī—that ʿAlī killed that day ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Wudd and his son Hasl ibn ʿAmr. Ibn Hishām adds: it is said “ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Wudd,” and it is also said “ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd.”