سكينة بنت الحسين

Sakina bint al-Husayn, one of the most learned and most refined women of the Umayyad period, according to the book on which this entry relies. Poets gathered at her house. It is reported that Jarir, al-Farazdaq, Kuthayyir 'Azza and Jamil Buthayna recited in her presence, and that she critiqued each man's poetry and rewarded it with a thousand dinars ¹.

Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr married her, together with Aisha bint Talha, and according to the book he gave each of them a dowry of a million dirhams ^{1 2}.