Na'ila bint Qurays ibn Waki'
نائلة بنت قريص بن وكيع
al-Ashdaq's wife — her omen-warning at the doorstep ('I adjure you, do not go') answered by 'even asleep you would not wake me' 1.
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Na'ila bint Quraysh ibn Wakf, wife of Amr ibn Sa'id al-Ashdaq. A report is told of her warning her husband. 2
The warning
al-Mas'udi relates that Amr stumbled on the carpet as he was going out to Abd al-Malik. She begged him in God's name not to go to him. He said to her: "Leave me, for by God, if I were asleep, he would not wake me." 2
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 96
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.96
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