Ja'da bint al-Ash'at (Full name:
Ja'da bint al-Ash'at ibn Qays al-Kindi) was the wife of
Imam Hasan Ibn Ali. Shia and some Sunni scholars believe that she killed her husband in 670 CE with poison at the instruction of
Mu'awiya. According to
Madelung These reports are not, as often suggested, accepted only by Shi'ite sources, but also by the major Sunnite historians al-Waqidl, al-Mada'inl, Umar b. Shabba, al-Baladhuri and al-Haytham b. 'Adi. Few details about her early life are known. She was of
Yemeni origin from the tribe of Kinda .