Tawba ibn al-Humayyir

Tawba ibn al-Humayyir, the lover of Layla al-Akhyaliyya. al-Mas'udi reports that al-Hajjaj said to her at his grave: "You were not faithful to him" ².

al-Mas'udi transmits from Layla that she heard him say that if she greeted him while he was in his grave, he would return the greeting with a welcoming salutation. In the report of Hammad the narrator, she went down into his grave, and a bird like a white dove came out of it. She struck her breast, and died, and was buried beside him ³.