Hababa
حبابة
The singing-girl procured by Yazid's grandmother to displace Salama — she summoned al-Ahwas's verse and Ma'bad's singing: 'life is only what delights you' 1.
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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
- الدولة الأموية — بكر محمد إبراهيم بكر (الطبعة الأولى، مركز الراية للنشر والإعلام، القاهرة 2002)
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