while others say he did not. She remained unmarried until she died (1) [hoping thereby to be counted among his wives] (2).
She is the woman who was given to drink by means of a bucket sent down from the sky when the idolaters denied her water, whereupon they embraced Islam. Her name was Ghaziyyah—some say Ghuzaylah—daughter of Dudān ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿĀmir [ibn Rawāḥah ibn Munqid ibn ʿAmr ibn Maʿīṣ ibn ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy]. She accepted Islam early on.
I say: Ibn al-Jawzi and the author of al-Jāmiʿ al-Masānīd have mentioned that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ consummated marriage with her after she had offered herself to him, and that she narrated hadiths. It is also said that, when he observed her advanced age, he divorced her; Allah knows best.
She died in this same year (3) according to the sounder opinion. Ibn al-Jawzi, however, states that she died in 50 AH, and I have not found anyone else who holds that view.
[Then the year 51 AH began.] In that year Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī and his companions were killed. He was Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī (4) ibn Jablah ibn ʿAdī ibn Rabīʿah ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Karam (5) ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Thawr ibn Murtiʿ ibn Kindah (6), a man of Kūfah. He was also called Ḥujr al-Khayr, and was known as Ḥujr ibn al-Adbar because his father ʿAdī was stabbed in the back while retreating, hence the epithet al-Adbar (“the rear”). Ḥujr’s teknonym was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (7). He belonged to the Kindah tribe and was one of the leading figures of Kūfah.
= 1711) Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 2, p. 330); Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 2, p. 255); al-Kashif (vol. 3, p. 442); al-Isabah (vol. 13, p. 235); Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (vol. 12, p. 472); Khulasat al-Khuzraji (p. 498); A‘lam al-Nisa’ (vol. 2, p. 296).
(1) The same entry appears in Ibn Sa‘d’s Tabaqat, and in the printed edition it reads: “died.”
(2) The parenthetical passage appears only in edition A.
(3) The parenthetical phrase is omitted in editions Ṭ and B; Ibn al-Athir notes the variant readings concerning her name and lineage in Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 7, p. 352).
(4) Tabaqat Ibn Sa‘d (vol. 6, p. 217); Tabaqat Khalifa (d. 1042); al-Muhbir (p. 292); Tarikh al-Bukhari al-Kabir (vol. 3, p. 72); Tarikh al-Saghir (vol. 1, p. 95); al-Ma‘arif (p. 334); al-Ma‘arifa wa al-Tarikh (vol. 3, p. 320); al-Akhbar al-Tiwal (p. 223); Tarikh al-Tabari (vol. 5, p. 253); al-Jarh wa al-Ta‘dil (vol. 3, p. 266); Muruj al-Dhahab (vol. 3, p. 12); Mashahir Ulama al-Amsar (d. 648); al-Aghani (vol. 17, p. 133); Mu‘jam al-Tabarani al-Kabir (vol. 4, p. 39); al-Mustadrak ‘ala al-Sahihayn (vol. 3, p. 468); Jumhurat Ansab al-‘Arab (p. 426); al-Istihbab (vol. 1, p. 329); Tarikh Ibn Asakir (vol. 4, p. 131b); Asad al-Ghabah (vol. 1, p. 461); al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh (vol. 3, p. 472); Mukhtasar Tarikh Dimashq (vol. 6, p. 235); Tarikh al-Islam (vol. 2, p. 275); Siyar A‘lam al-Nubala’ (vol. 3, p. 462); al-‘Ibar (vol. 1, p. 57); Mir’at al-Jinan (vol. 1, p. 125); al-Isabah (vol. 1, p. 314); Shudhur al-Dhahab (vol. 1, p. 247); Tahdhib Ibn Asakir (vol. 4, p. 87).
(5) In the printed edition it appears as al-Akbar; in the biographical sources: al-Akramayn.
(6) In the original manuscript: Ibn Kindi; corrected according to Jumhurat al-Ansab.
(7) Omitted in the printed edition.