Among these women were Sawdah Hamdaniyyah and Zurqa’ Hamdaniyyah...

Among these women were Sawdah Hamdaniyyah and Zurqa’ Hamdaniyyah, daughters of ‘Addi ibn Qays.[^11] Sawdah addressed his father saying: شعر كفعل ابيك يابن عمارة يوم الطّعان و ملتقى الاقران وانصر عليّاً و الحسين و رهطه واقصد لهند و ابنها بهوان ان الإمام اخا النّبي محمّد علم الهدى و منارة الإيمان فقد الجيوش و سره امام لوائه قدماً بأبيض صارم و سنان530 Given this, Mu‘awiyah nursed a grudge against them. And after the martyrdom of ‘Ali ( ‘a ) they were summoned to Sham.

They were asked to explain about their poems and they were reproached.[^12] The second Yemeni tribe which had many Shi‘ah of ‘Ali ( ‘a ) among its members was the tribe of Rabi‘ah. For example, in enumerating the Shi‘ah of ‘Ali ( ‘a ) Burqa has allocated a certain part to the companions of ‘Ali ( ‘a ) from the tribe of Rabi‘ah while allocating the rest of the Yemeni Shi‘ah in another part.[^13] When ‘Ali ( ‘a ) heard that a number of the tribe…