Translated by Akmaliza Abdullah from Tarikh Baghdad of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi<\/p>\n
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Al-Mahdi’s wife and his umm walad. She was a\u00a0Jarshiyyah. She gave birth to al- Hadi and al-Rashid. Apart form her and the mother of al-Walid and Sulayman b. ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, there was no other women who gave birth to two caliphs.<\/p>\n
Al-Khayzuran narrated hadith musnad on the authority of al-‘Abbas: “Man ittaqa Allah waqqahu Allah kulla shay’\u00a0<\/em>”<\/p>\n Al-Waqidi narated: One day, I went to al-Mahdi, who asked for his inkwell and a notebook, with which he wrote hadith which I taught him. Suddenly he got up and said: “Peace be in your place until I come back”. Then he entered the harem. When he came out, he returned full of rage. when he sat down, I asked him: “O Amir al-Mu’minin, \u00a0why do you come out looking entirely different from when you went inside?” He said: :I went to al-Khayzuran who leapt on me, stretched her hands and tore my clothes. She exclaimed: O you picker of leftovers! What good have I ever received at your hands? ” Al Mahdi then continued telling al-Waqidi: ” It was me who bought her from a slave trader, and she has seen from me what she has seen [a great benefit and favor], and I have decided to let her two sons to be the heirs of my throne. Am I then the picker of the leftovers?” Al-Waqidi then said [trying to calm al-Mahdi by citing hadith of the Prophet s.a.w. bearing on the general weakness and perversity of women’s nature]: “Innahunna yaghlibna al-kiram, wa yaghlibhuna al-li’am” . Al-Waqidim furthermore recited another hadiths: “Khayrukum khayrukum li ahlih wa ana khayrukum li ahli” and ” wa qad khuliqat al-mar’ah min dal’ a’waj in qawwamtahu kassartahu”. According to al-Waqidim he recited whatever hadith he knew, which pertained to the matter, until al-Mahdi calmed down, and his face started to become lively again, Then al-Mahdi rewarded his counselor with two thousands dinar and said: “Spend this money to \u00a0improve your well being!”. Upon reaching his house, al-Khayzuran’s servant approached al-Waqidi and told him: “My lady wished you salam. She said, O Uncle, I’ve heard all that you said to Amir al-Mu’minin. May Allah reward you. This is 1,990 dinar [ten dinar short of what al-Mahdi gave him], for I don’t want to be equal to the gift given by Amir al-Mu’minin.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She died on the Friday night , 27th Jumada al-Akhirah 173, that was the same day Muhammad b. Sulayman died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Translated by Akmaliza Abdullah from Tarikh Baghdad of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi Al-Mahdi’s wife and his umm walad. She was a\u00a0Jarshiyyah. She gave birth to al- Hadi and al-Rashid. Apart form her and the mother of al-Walid and Sulayman b. ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, there was no other women who gave birth to two caliphs. Al-Khayzuran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/akmaliza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}