Sajah bint Al-Harith ibn Suwayd al-Taghlibi (Arabic: سجاح بنت الحارث بن سويد التغلبي, fl.
[2] According to Muhammad Suhail Taqu̅sh, Arab culture and Turkic history professor of Imam al-Awza’i University, Sajah was a Christian who also worked as a shaman.
[2] However, according to Meir Jacob Kister, Arabist from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it was instead Sajah's father, Al-Harith ibn Suwayd, who belonged to the Banu Taghlib tribe of Iraq.
The Yarbu branch which Sajah hailed from gained political monopoly in Souk Okaz, as one of their chiefs was entrusted as an arbitrator and judge of the market.
However, her planned attack on Medina was called off after she learned that the army of Khalid ibn al-Walid had defeated Tulayha al-Asadi (another self-proclaimed prophet).
[2] After the Battle of Yamama, where Musaylima was killed, sources mention that Sajah converted to Islam after giving up her claim of prophethood and died after 661 during the reign of Mu'awiya I.