Umm Qirfa
Umm Qirfa was a honoured and old Arab leader of the pagan tribe of Banu Fazara in Wadi Al-Qura. She was the wife of Malik ibn Hudhayfa ibn Badr al-Fazari. She was killed by Zayd ibn Haritha on the orders of Muhammad “by putting a rope into her two legs and to two camels and driving them until they rent her in two....”. Her severed head was later paraded all over the streets of Medina.
Ibn Ishaq, the "first biographer" of Muhammad writes that:
