Ghazala, Shabib's wife
غزالة امرأة شبيب الخارجي
Shabib the Kharijite's wife — a famed horsewoman who fulfilled her vow of two rak'as in Kufa's mosque reciting the two long suras, so the town chanted 'she fulfilled her vow — God, do not forgive her'; killed with Umm Shabib when Sufyan routed him 1.
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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
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 130
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