Editing Muhammad (section)

===Confronting the Jews===
After each of the three battles mentioned above, one of the main Jewish clans was expelled from Medina. The primary reason was their failure to support Muhammad, marked by their collaboration with his enemies in Medina and their conspiracy with the Meccans. After the battle of Badr, the clan of Qaynuqaʿ was forced to leave Medina, and some of the emigrants (''muhajirun''), Muhammad 's followers from Mecca who had made the ''hijrah'', took over their marketplaces and soon controlled trade within the settlement. The clan of al-Naḍir was expelled after the battle of Uhud; they owned rich groves of palm trees that were distributed among Muhammad 's poor emigrant followers and others (''surah''59:2–10). The treatment of the third and last Jewish clan, the Qurayẓah, was much harsher because of evidence of a conspiracy during the battle of the trench in which they made plans to attack Muhammad 's forces from the rear. If this fifth-column plot had been carried out, it could have ended his career. After a siege of their strongholds, they surrendered and Muhammad put them on trial, appointing a judge from an Arab tribe that was allied to them. The verdict was that all the men of the clan were to be executed and the women and children were to be sold as slaves (''surah''33:26–27). In this one action of his career, Muhammad followed the customs and expectations of his day rather than his usual magnanimous treatment of his foes after battles and intrigues.