At a glance
- Roles
- mystic
- Era
- The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Habiba al-Adawiyya was a devout woman of Basra recorded by Ibn al-Jawzi in Sifat al-Safwa. 1
Her night prayer
He relates from Abd Allah al-Makki that after the night prayer she would go up on a roof, fasten her shift and veil, and say: "My God, the stars have set, eyes sleep, kings have locked their doors, and Your door is open; every lover is alone with his beloved, and this is my place before You." 1 At the pre-dawn she would pray: "O God, this night has turned away and the day has dawned; would that I knew whether You accepted my night, so that I may rejoice, or rejected it, so that I may be consoled." She swore that this would be her way as long as she lived, and that even if He drove her away she would not leave His door. 1
For young visitors
A woman of Basra who went up on the roof at night and spoke to her Lord while everyone else slept.
Connections
- Lived in
- Basra
People and things also explored
Ufayra the Devout· Ajrada al-Ammiyya· Amat al-Jalil bint Amr al-Adawiyya· Amra, wife of Habib al-Ajami· Bahriyya al-Abida· Burda al-Sarimiyya· Hafsa bint Sirin· Kurdawiyya bint Amr al-Basriyya
Sources
- Sifat al-Safwa — Ibn al-Jawzi (ed. Khalid Mustafa Tartusi, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, Beirut 1433/2012) , p.710
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Habiba al-Adawiyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/habiba-al-adawiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-04.
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