Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. For the Prophet, may Allah Most High bless him and grant him peace, would sometimes offer qunūt, supplicating for the believers and invoking curses upon the disbelievers, naming the polytheist tribes fighting him, such as Mudar, Riʿl, Dhakwān and ʿUsayyah. Likewise, when ʿUmar fought the People of the Book, he supplicated against them in qunūt during the obligatory prayer. The Sunnah, therefore, is to offer qunūt when a calamity occurs, making supplications appropriate to the people engaged in hostilities. As for making ʿUmar’s qunūt in the obligatory prayer a sunnah in Witr, and al-Hasan’s qunūt in Witr a regular sunnah in the obligatory prayer—the problem with this is plain to see.
This hadith also states that he supplicated for people whom he mentioned by name after Khaybar. This was, by agreement, after speaking during prayer had been prohibited, even if the accounts placing that prohibition late imply that it was delayed until the year of the Battle of the Trench. Khaybar occurred more than two years after the Trench: by agreement, Khaybar took place after al-Hudaybiyyah, and al-Hudaybiyyah took place in 6 AH, also by agreement.
Moreover, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, undertook ʿumrah only in Dhū al-Qaʿdah. After concluding the treaty with them, he returned to Medina. Then came the expedition of al-Ghābah, also known as the expedition of Dhū Qarad, which Muslim mentions in his Sahīh through the report of Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ. When Fazārah raided the milk camels of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, Salamah began saying:
“Take that! I am Ibn al-Akwaʿ;
Today the vile shall meet their doom!”
Khaybar followed immediately afterward, at the end of 6 AH and the beginning of 7 AH. This is agreed upon.
The Battle of the Trench, however, occurred earlier: either at the beginning of 5 AH or at the end of 4 AH, as related in the two Sahīh collections from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said: “I was presented to the Prophet