Sumayyah binte Khabbab

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This is a sahabiyya of Muhammad.

Sumayyah bint Khabbab (Arabic: سمية بنت خطّاب‎) was the African (Abyssinian) slave of Abu Hudhaifah ibn al-Mughirah and the mother of Ammar ibn Yasir ^[1].

1 Biography
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3 See also
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[edit] Biography

[edit] Islam

She was the seventh one to accept Islam ^[1].

Yasir ibn Amir was also a slave to Abu Hudhaifah, so Abu Hudhaifah married him to Sumayyah and they had Ammar, and Abu Hudhaifah freed his slave ^[1].

Yasir and his wife and his son were all from the earliest people to accept Islam ^[1].

Mujahid said "The first ones who showed their Islam in Mecca were seven: the Messenger of Allah, Abu Bakr, Bilal, Khatab, Suhaib, Ammar, Sumayyah." ^[1]. (note that Ali is not mentioned)

As far as the Messenger of Allah and Abu Bakr then their people prevented them from being harmed. As for the others, they [the mushrikin] seized them, dressed them in a suit of armor and cooked them in the sun ^[1]..

[edit] Torture

Ibn Ishaq stated in his 'Maghazi' that some men from the family of Ammar ibn Yassar narrated that Sumayyah was punished by the family of al-Mughira because of her Islam. She refused to leave Islam ^[1].

Muhammad used to go to Ammar, his mother and his father when they were being punished at al-Abtah, during the month of Ramadhan in Mecca. He would say ^[1]:

"Be patient oh family of Ammar- your appointed destination is Jannah (paradise). ^[1]"

[edit] Death

Abu Jahl came to Sumayyah and stabbed her with a spear in her private parts and she died as a result of that. Therefore she was the first martyr (shaheedah) in Islam. Abu Shaibah and the author Jarir and Mansur and Mujahid... stated it is mursal with an authentic chain ^[1].

Ibn Sa'd narrates with an authentic chain on the authority of Mujahid that the first shaheed in Islam was Sumayyah, the mother of Ammar ibn Yasir. And she was a small old woman. And Abu Jahl was killed on the day of Badr. The Messenger [sall'Allahu aleihi was salam] said to Ammar: "Allah has killed the one who has killed your mother." ^[1]