al-Nu'man ibn Bashir's daughter

ابنة النعمان بن بشير زوجة المختار

al-Mukhtar's wife who refused the sword-point recantation — 'shall I follow Ibn Hind and abandon Ibn Abi Talib? God, I follow Your prophet and his daughter's son' — and was martyred, the elegy mourning 'a noble free woman killed for no crime' 1.

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The daughter of al-Nu'man ibn Bashir, one of the wives of al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd. When Musab ibn al-Zubayr brought the wives of al-Mukhtar and called them to disown him, she refused. 2

Al-Mas'udi says that she was killed in cold blood, and quotes a verse of a poet marvelling at her killing. 2

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  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 93
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.93
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