[2] Hind was the daughter of al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir, the last Lakhmid king of al-Hira (r. 582 – c. 602) and an Eastern Christian Arab mother.
[3] According to the Ḥarb Banī Shaybān maʻa Kisrà Ānūshirwān, whose historical reliability is questionable, Khosrow II, emperor of the Sasanian Empire (r. 590–628) and her father's overlord, demanded Hind in marriage.
Thinking better of the arrangement, al-Nuʿmān sent Hind to seek refuge among the Arabs, and was subsequently attacked and imprisoned by Khosrow.
She was then sent to marry al-Nu'man ibn al-Rayyan, "her only cousin to survive the Persian attack on the Kingdom of al-Ḥirah", after which Khosrow granted him the throne of al-Hirah.
When al-Zarqāʾ died, her faithful lover "cropped her hair, wore black clothes, rejected worldly pleasures, vowed to God that she would lead an ascetic life until she passed away".