al-Shaybaniyya bint Hani' ibn Qubaysa

الشيبانية بنت هانئ بن قبيصة

'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Umar's wife — alone of his women she refused to arm him at Siffin, warning that every proud champion who faced her tribe fell; wounded by his bow, she outlived her prophecy and carried his wrapped body home 1.

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Al-Shaybaniyya, daughter of Hani ibn Qabisa and wife of Ubayd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab (may God be pleased with him), who appears in the account of his departure for Siffin. 2

The account of Siffin

Al-Mas'udi relates that she refused to buckle his weapons on the day he set out, and said that her people were not attacked by a Persian with arrogance in his head without destroying him. He struck her with a bow, then was killed as she had warned. 2

When Ali ordered his body given to her, she threw to them a silk cloak, they wrapped him in it, and they handed him to her. 2

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 676-677
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.676-677
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