Maysun bint Bahdal was a wife of caliph Mu'awiya I, and as mother of his successor and son Yazid I. She belonged to a ruling clan of the Banu Kalb, a tribe which dominated the Syrian steppe. Mu'awiya's marriage to her sealed his alliance with the tribe.
- Occupation
- writer
- Citizenship
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Died
- 700, 699
