ʿAmr ibn Nawfal ibn ʿAbd Manāf also married her sister separately after her—she was Kanūd bint Qarazah (1), the same woman who accompanied him when he captured Cyprus.

Muʿāwiyah then married Nāʾilah bint ʿUmārah al-Kalbiyyah, and she pleased him greatly. He said to Maysūn bint Baḥdal, “Go in and look at your cousin.” She entered; when he questioned her, she replied, “She is perfect in beauty, yet I noticed a mole beneath her navel, and I foresee that her husband will be killed and his head laid in her lap.” Muʿāwiyah thereupon divorced her. After him she married Ḥabīb ibn Maslamah (2) al-Fihrī, and after his death al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr, who was indeed slain and his head placed in her lap.

Among Muʿāwiyah’s most famous children was Yazīd. His mother was Maysūn bint Baḥdal ibn Unayf ibn Duljah ibn Qunāfah al-Kalbī—the very woman who had inspected Nāʾilah and reported what she saw. Maysūn was resolute, distinguished for her beauty, nobility, intelligence, leadership, and piety. On one occasion Muʿāwiyah entered her room accompanied by a eunuch servant. She withdrew behind a screen and asked, “Who is this man with you?” He replied, “A eunuch; you may appear before him.” She said, “Mutilation does not make lawful for him what Allah has forbidden,” and she remained veiled from him. In another report she told him, “The mere fact that he is maimed does not permit for him what Allah has forbidden.” (3) Because of such virtue Allah entrusted her son Yazīd with the caliphate after his father.

Ibn Jarīr relates that this same Maysūn bore Muʿāwiyah another daughter named Amat Rabb al-Mashāriq, who died while still a child. (4)

Ramlah married ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān. Her house in Damascus stood by the Fish Slope opposite Rummān Alley, according to Ibn ʿAsākir, who adds that she owned a mill still known to this day. (5)

Hind bint Muʿāwiyah married ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĀmir. When she was brought to him in the Green Palace beside the mosque he sought marital relations, but she resisted and adamantly refused. He struck her, and she screamed. The slave-girls, hearing her cry, shrieked in alarm until their voices rose high. Muʿāwiyah heard the commotion, hurried over, and asked, “What has happened?” They answered, “We heard our mistress cry out, so we cried out.” He entered and found her weeping from the blows. He said to Ibn ʿĀmir, “Shame on you! Would one such as she be beaten on a night like this?” Then he ordered, “Leave this place,” and Ibn ʿĀmir left.

Muʿāwiyah remained alone with her and said, “My daughter, he is your husband, made lawful to you by Allah. Have you not heard the poet’s words:

Among the modest, noble women—
for unlawful approach they are hard to gain,
but once lawfully wed they are gentle and amenable?”