Sajah bint al-Harith

Sajah bint al-Harith — Tamimi by her father, Taghlibi by her mother — a woman who claimed prophethood in rhymed prose and marched an army toward Medina, then joined Musaylima at al-Yamama, then returned to Islam and lived in it.

In the days of the Ridda, Sajah came out speaking in the saj' rhymed prose that marked soothsayers among the Arabs; a host of her mother's kindred and her father's people gathered to her, and she marched an army toward Medina, then turned aside to al-Yamama ¹.

In the sources' telling she met Musaylima, believed in his prophethood and married him, then he sent her back to her people — before Banu Hanifa were routed at Aqraba' ¹.

Then she returned to Islam, and the tradition says she died a Muslim in Mu'awiya's reign ².

Sajah is the only woman in the Ridda story who claimed prophethood and marched an army — and the rare figure of that war who lived to close her tale a Muslim.