The Nadhirites were more guilty, since they conspired, in a friendly interview, to assassinate the prophet.

He besieged their castle, three miles from Medina; but their resolute defence obtained an honorable capitulation; and the garrison, sounding their trumpets and beating their drums, was permitted to depart with the honors of war.

The Jews had excited and joined the war of the Koreish: no sooner had the _nations_ retired from the _ditch_, than Mahomet, without laying aside his armor, marched on the same day to extirpate the hostile race of the children of Koraidha.

After a resistance of twenty-five days, they surrendered at discretion.

They trusted to the intercession of their old allies of Medina; they could not be ignorant that fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.