Jaʿda bint al-Ashʿath () (Full name: ''Jaʿda bint al-Ashʿath ibn Qays al-Kindī'') was the wife of
Hasan ibn Ali.
Few details about her early life and biography are known. She was of
Arab origin from the tribe of
Kinda
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historians wrote that Ja'da was promised gold and marriage to
Yazid ibn Mu'awiya. Seduced by the promise of wealth and power, she poisoned her husband, and then hastened to the court of Mu'awiya in
Damascus
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to receive her reward. Mu'awiya reneged on his promise to marry her to his son and married her to another man.
He said he could not marry her to his son for fear she would poison him too.
See also
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Husayn ibn Ali
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
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Hasan–Muawiya treaty
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7th-century Yemeni people
7th-century Arabs
Yemeni women in politics
Kinda
People from Medina
Family of Muhammad
Wives of Shiite Imams