Editing Unconditional surrender (section)

===Banu Qurayza during Muhammad's era===
{{Main|Banu Qurayza}}
After the [[Battle of the Trench]], in which the Muslims tactically overcame their opponents while suffering very few casualties, efforts to defeat the Muslims failed, and [[Islam]] became influential in the region. As a consequence, the Muslim army besieged the neighbourhood of the [[Siege of the Banu Qurayza|Banu Qurayza tribe]], leading to their unconditional surrender.<ref
  name="Watt, pp. 167–174"
>Watt, ''Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman'', pp. 167–174.</ref
>    All the men, apart from a few who converted to [[Islam]], were executed, while the women and children were [[Ma malakat aymanukum|enslaved]].<ref
  name="Peterson"
>Peterson, ''Muhammad: the prophet of God'', pp. 125–127.</ref
><ref
  name="Ramadan140"
>Ramadan, ''In the Footsteps of the Prophet'', pp. 140f.</ref
><ref
>Hodgson, ''The Venture of Islam'', vol. 1, p. 191.</ref
><ref
  name="Brown, p. 81"
>Brown, ''A New Introduction to Islam'', p. 81.</ref
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 name="Lings229"
>Lings, ''Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources'', pp. 229–233.</ref
>    The historicity of the incident has been questioned.<ref
>  For details and references see [[ Banu Qurayza #Doubts about the historicity of the event |discussion]] in [[ Banu Qurayza |main article]].  </ref>