Sajah, the female false prophet

Sajah bint al-Harith adalah seorang prophetess-claimant who arose during the Riddah periode following the death of Nabi Muhammad ﷺ. She adalah from the Banu Taghlib tribe, which adalah predominantly Christian, and memiliki grown up in the Jazira region. She gathered pengikuts and marched toward Madinah. When she learned that Abu Bakr adalah preparing formidable forces against her, she changed course. She then allied herself with Musaylima al-Kadhdhab of Yamama, and the two false prophets married — reportedly Musaylima paid her 'mahr' by exempting the dawn and night shalats from her pengikuts' obligations, an incident that became a source of dark humor in early Islamic literature. After Musaylima adalah killed at the Battle of Yamama in 12 AH, Sajah and her movement collapsed. She akhirnya genuinely embraced Islam and settled in Bashrah, where she lived a quiet life. She reportedly wafat di 56 AH during the khalifahate of Muawiyah. Her story adalah unique in that she began as a false prophetess and ended as a sincere Muslim.