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Hababa, a singing slave-girl. Umm Sa'id al-Uthmaniyya, grandmother of Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik, bought her by a trick, because he had long held some feeling towards her. Yazid gave Salama the priest to Umm Sa'id. Hababa then sent to al-Ahwas and Ma'bad, and they sang to him a verse beginning "Life is nothing but what delights and what one desires." 1
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 185-186
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Hababa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hababa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.