Hakima al-Makkiyya

Hakima was a woman of Banu Makhzum who lived beside the sanctuary in Mecca; Ibn al-Jawzi places her first among the devout women of Mecca in Sifat al-Safwa. ¹

He reports from Salama ibn Khalid al-Makhzumi that whenever she saw the door of the Ka'ba open she cried out like a bereaved mother until she fainted, and that she hardly left the mosque except for some unavoidable need. ¹ One day the Ka'ba was opened while she was away on an errand; when she came back a woman who used to sit with her told her of it and of the pilgrims circling and awaiting mercy, and she cried out and kept trembling until she died. ¹ The editor notes that Kahhala included her in A'lam al-Nisa', taking her from Sifat al-Safwa. ¹