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 "id": "person/sajah",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "sajah",
 "label": {
  "en": "Sajah bint al-Harith",
  "ar": "سجاح بنت الحارث"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A woman of Tamim by her father and Taghib by her mother who claimed prophecy in rhymed speech, marched an army toward Medina, then turned to Yamama and joined Musaylima — before returning to Islam and living into the caliphate.",
  "ar": "امرأة من تميم لأبيها ومن تغلب لأمها ادّعت النبوة بسجعها، وساقت جيشًا نحو المدينة، ثم توجهت إلى اليمامة فالتحقت بمسيلمة — قبل أن تعود إلى الإسلام وتعيش في عهد الخلافة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "civil-wars-and-revolts",
  "women",
  "prophets"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 590.0017796395546,
  "latest": 661.0011841447488
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0590~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0660~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Reported to have died in the Jazira or at Basra under Mu'awiya's caliphate, having returned to Islam.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "سجاح بنت الحارث بن سويد"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0590~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0660~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Reported to have died in the Jazira or at Basra under Mu'awiya's caliphate, having returned to Islam.",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993",
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "poet"
  ],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "rival-claimant",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Claimed prophecy among her mother's people and her father's tribe; fielded an army that briefly threatened Medina.",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-donner-1993",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "rebel",
    "toward": "polity/rashidun-caliphate",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Marched against Medina, then withdrew to join Musaylima in Yamama — where, in the sources' accounts, she accepted his prophecy and married him briefly.",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-donner-1993"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0633~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Returned to Islam after the Ridda; the tradition records her living as a Muslim into the caliphate of Mu'awiya.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "christian",
    "basis": "debated",
    "note": "Raised among the Christian Taghib of the Jazira; her own claim and later reversion complicate any single label — recorded as debated.",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-donner-1993",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0633~"
    },
    "note": "The tradition holds she died a Muslim.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/tabari-donner-1993",
   "source/watt-1956-medina",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "سجاح بنت الحارث — من تميم لأبيها ومن تغلب لأمها — امرأة ادّعت النبوة بكلام مسجوع وساقت جيشًا نحو المدينة، ثم التحقت بمسيلمة في اليمامة، ثم عادت إلى الإسلام وعاشت فيه."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "في أيام الردة خرجت سجاح تتكلم بالسجع الذي كان عند العرب علامة الكهان، فاجتمع إليها خلق من ربعتها وقوم أبيها، وسارت بجيش نحو المدينة ثم عدلت عنها إلى اليمامة {cite:tabari-donner-1993}.\n\nوفي رواية المصادر لقيت [[person/musaylima|مسيلمة]] فآمنت بنبوته وتزوّجها ثم ردّها إلى قومها — قبل أن تنهزم بنو حنيفة بعقرباء {cite:tabari-donner-1993}.\n\nثم رجعت إلى الإسلام، ويقول التراث إنها ماتت مسلمة في عهد معاوية {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "سجاح المرأة الوحيدة في قصة الردة التي ادّعت النبوة وساقت جيشًا — والنادرة بين شخصيات تلك الحرب التي عاشت لتختم حكايتها مسلمة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "ادّعت امرأة اسمها سجاح أنها نبية وساقت جيشًا — ثم انضمت إلى مدّعٍ مثلها، ثم عادت مسلمة وعاشت طويلًا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sajah",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/safwan-ibn-umayya",
  "person/umm-salama",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/uthman-ibn-affan",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/abu-dharr-al-ghifari"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/banu-tamim",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-taghib",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/musaylima",
   "type": "spouse_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "polity/rashidun-caliphate",
   "type": "opposed",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/muhammad",
  "person/musaylima",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "person/wahshi-ibn-harb",
  "person/al-aswad-al-ansi",
  "person/zaynab-bint-ali",
  "event/al-dawa-al-sirriyya",
  "event/death-of-the-prophet"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}