Ajrada al-Ammiyya

Ajrada al-Ammiyya was a devout woman of Basra recorded by Ibn al-Jawzi in Sifat al-Safwa among the women ascetics of Basra. ^{1 2}

He relates from Amina bint Ya'la ibn Suhayl that Ajrada would visit them and stay a day or two; at nightfall she would put on her clothes and veil, stand in the prayer niche and pray until the pre-dawn, then sit and supplicate until daybreak. When someone said, "If only you slept a little at night", she wept and said, "The remembrance of death does not let me sleep." ² From Ja'far ibn Sulayman, that a woman of his family saw her on a feast day wearing a woollen cloak, veil and wrap, nothing but skin and bone, and that people said she had not broken her fast for sixty years. ²