قطام

Qatam, a woman of the Kharijites, whom Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam loved and married. According to al-Suyuti, her dowry was three thousand dirhams, a slave, a singing girl, and the killing of Ali. al-Farazdaq composed his well-known verses on this. ²

al-Mas'udi says that she was the most beautiful woman of her time, and that Ali had killed her father and brother at Nahrawan. When he proposed to her, she made the dowry mentioned above a condition on Ibn Muljam. She pitched a tent in the Great Mosque and withdrew there in seclusion. ³