Hababa (slave)

Hababah (Arabic: حبابة; d. 724), was a jarya slave singer and poet, concubine of the Caliph Yazid II.

Hababah was a slave, brought to the Umayyad harem of the Caliph Yazid II as a concubine.

Yazid II noticed her during a visit to Hijaz, and his wife Sada bought Hababah as a gift for him for a price of 4,000 dinars.

[4] On one occasions, she contacted the Governor of Medina without the knowledge of the Caliph, and when he was informed, he did nothing to punish her.

[5] She died after choking on pomegranate seeds, (according to another account it was grapes thrown at her by the Caliph) while picnicking in a garden.