A'isha al-Makkiyya

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A'isha al-Makkiyya was a devout woman of Mecca who kept company with al-Fudayl ibn Iyad, as Ibn al-Jawzi records in Sifat al-Safwa. ¹

In Sifat al-Safwa

He reports from Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam that on entering Mecca he would sometimes sit facing the Ka'ba and sometimes lie back and stretch out his legs; A'isha al-Makkiyya came to him and said: they say you are a scholar — accept a word from me: "Do not sit with Him except with good manners, lest He erase your name from the register of nearness." ¹

Hakima al-Makkiyya

A devout woman of Banu Makhzum who lived beside the sanctuary in Mecca; Ibn al-Jawzi places her first among the devout women of Mecca in Sifat al-Safwa, on the report of Salama ibn Khalid al-Makhzumi: when she saw the door of the Ka'ba open she would cry out until she fainted, she hardly left the mosque, and when a woman told her one day that the House had been opened in her absence she cried out and trembled until she died.

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Hakima al-Makkiyya