Ghazala, Shabib's wife

Ghazala, the wife of Shabib the Kharijite. Al-Mas'udi describes her as having a great standing in courage and horsemanship. She vowed to enter the mosque of Kufa and pray two cycles there, reciting in them al-Baqara and Al Imran. She came to the mosque with seventy men and fulfilled her vow. People said: "Ghazala has fulfilled her vow; O Lord, do not forgive her." Then she and the mother of Shabib were killed when Shabib was routed before Sufyan ibn al-Abrad. ¹