Jaʿda bint al-Ashʿath () (Full name: ''Jaʿda bint al-Ashʿath ibn Qays al-Kindī'') was the wife of

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historians wrote that Ja'da was promised gold and marriage to

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. Seduced by the promise of wealth and power, she poisoned her husband, and then hastened to the court of Mu'awiya in

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to receive her reward. Mu'awiya reneged on his promise to marry her to his son and married her to another man.

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