Ammar ibn Yasir

ʻAmmār ibn Yāsir al-Ansi (Arabic: عمار بن یاسر‎) was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was one of the Muhajirun,^[1] and referred to as by Shia Muslims as one of the Four Companions.

Ammār was born in the Year of the Elephant, which was the same year as Muhammad. ʻAmmār was a friend of Muhammad even before conversion and was one of the intermediaries in Muhammad's marriage to Khadijah bint Khuwaylid. His mother was Sumayyah bint Khayyat and his father was Yasir ibn Amir. Yasir and Sumayyah were pagan converts to Islam who were tortured and crucified in the last year before the Hijra and thus one of the first martyrs of Islam at Muhammad's time. ʻAmmār's family was repeatedly tortured by Abu Jahl and his parents were martyred after much torture. After the persecution of Muslims was over, Hamza and the Muhammad's other companions went to the loaction where the torture and persecution took place; they found every persecuted Muslim dead except Ammar, who had survived the torture.

Ammar was martyred in the Battle of Siffin by the forces of Mu'awiya I in 657, well past the age of 50.^[2]

References

External links

• The Great Sahabai Ammar ibn Yasir (Archived 2009-10-25)
• http://al-islam.org/restatement/71.htm
• http://al-islam.org/slavery/4.htm
• Arabic كتاب سلسلة الأركان الاربعة ـ عمار بن یاسر
• http://www.ezsoftech.com/stories/companion6.asp