Ja'da bint al-Ash'at

Ja'da bint al-Ash'at (Full name:Ja'da bint al-Ash'at ibn Qays al-Kindi) was the wife of Imam Hasan Ibn Ali. Shia and some Sunni scholars believe that she killed her husband in 670 CE with poison at the instruction of Mu'awiya.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] According to Madelung, these reports are not, as often suggested, accepted only by Shi'ite sources, but also by the major Sunnite historians al-Waqidl, al-Mada'inl, Umar b. Shabba, al-Baladhuri and al-Haytham b. 'Adi.[lower-alpha 1][9] Few details about her early life are known. She was of Yemeni origin from the tribe of Kinda (كندة).

Shia Muslims believe that Ja'da was promised gold and marriage to Yazid. Seduced by the promise of wealth and power, she poisoned her husband, and then hastened to the court of Muawiyah in Damascus to receive her reward. Muawiyah reneged on his promises and married her to another man.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Madelung adds further that "The generally pro-Umayyad Awana also seems to imply that Mu'awiyya had a hand in al-Hasan's demise when he describes him as instructing Marwan, just before al-Hasan's death, to inform him as quickly as possible when it happened. Marwan did so, and Mufawiya thus could surprise lAbd Allah b. al-'Abbas with the news (Ibn Abl Usaybi'a, 'Uyun al-anbd' fi tabaqdt al-atibbd\ ed. A. Miiller (Cairo, 1299/1882), I, 118-19). The report, however, erroneously suggests that Marwan was at that time governor of Medina. Lammens interpreted it as agreeing with reports that al-Hasan's mortal illness lasted two months (Mo'dwia, 152-3). This interpretation is in conflict, however, with 'Awana's point that Mu'awiya wanted to surprise Ibn al-(Abbas with the news. Ibn al-(Abbas would have been among the first to know of a mortal illness afflicting al-Hasan." [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Mas'oodi, Vol 2: Page 47
  2. ↑ Tāreekh - Abul Fidā Vol 1 : Page 182
  3. ↑ Iqdul Fareed - Ibn Abd Rabbāh Vol 2, Page 11
  4. ↑ Rawzatul Manazir - Ibne Shahnah Vol 2, Page 133
  5. ↑ Tāreekhul Khamees, Husayn Dayarbakri Vol2, Page 238
  6. ↑ Akbarut Tiwal - Dinawari Pg 400
  7. ↑ Mawātilat Talibeyeen - Abul Faraj Isfahāni
  8. ↑ Isti'ab - Ibne Abdul Birr
  9. 1 2 Madelung, Wilferd (1997). The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate. Cambridge University Press. pp. 3331–332. ISBN 0-521-64696-0.
  10. ↑ "Imam Hassan". Retrieved 9 May 2014.
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