Ḥumayda bint Numān ibn Bashīr () was an Arabic-speaking female poet and satirist of the seventh century CE. She is noted for her satires on the failings of her various husbands.Marlé Hammond, 'The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective', in The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in Honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder, ed. by Adam Talib, Marlé Hammond and Arie Schippers ([no place]: E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2014), pp. 254-65 .
Her father, Nu'man ibn Bashir was born in Medina during the Islamic month of Rabi al-Akhir, which occurred fourteen months after the Hijrah, the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina. He belonged to the Banu Khazraj, a major tribe of the Ansar. According to some Muslim authorities, he was the first child of the Ansar to be born after the Hijrah. Her grandfather, Bashir ibn Sa'd, was a distinguished companion of Muhammad, and her grandmother, Amra bint Rawaha, was a sister of another noted Ansari companion, Abd Allah ibn Rawaha.
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf took Umm Aban as his first wife, a daughter of Nu'man onetime governor of Kufa. Before being appointed governor of Iraq, Al-Hajjaj was also wed to another daughter of Nu'man, which was Humayda, after she had been divorced by Rawh ibn Zinba; al-Hajjaj divorced Humayda during his governorship in Iraq. Thus Al-Hajjaj was earlier his brother-in-law and later her husband for a period.
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