At a glance
- Roles
- mystic
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Amra was the wife of the Basran ascetic Habib Abu Muhammad al-Ajami; Ibn al-Jawzi gives her entry among the women ascetics of Basra in Sifat al-Safwa (no. 595). 1
Before dawn
From al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Rahman, from one of his companions: one night she woke while her husband slept, and roused him before dawn, saying: "Get up, man — the night has gone and the day has come; before you is a long road and little provision, the caravans of the righteous have set out ahead of us, and we have stayed behind." 1
The pain of the heart
From Muslim ibn Ibrahim, from Suhayl the brother of Hazm: when her eye was ailing she was asked how she felt, and said, "The pain of my heart is worse than the pain of my eye." 1
For young visitors
Amra woke her husband before dawn to pray, telling him that the road to the next life is long and that good people had already gone ahead.
Connections
- Lived in
- Basra
People and things also explored
Ufayra the Devout· Ajrada al-Ammiyya· Amat al-Jalil bint Amr al-Adawiyya· Bahriyya al-Abida· Burda al-Sarimiyya· Habiba al-Adawiyya· Hafsa bint Sirin· Kurdawiyya bint Amr al-Basriyya
Sources
- Sifat al-Safwa — Ibn al-Jawzi (ed. Khalid Mustafa Tartusi, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, Beirut 1433/2012) , p.712
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Amra, wife of Habib al-Ajami”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/amra-wife-of-habib-al-ajami/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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