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1339:"The first victims of pagan attrition and aggression were those Muslims who had no tribal affiliation in Makkah. Yasir and his wife, Sumayya, and their son, Ammar, had no tribal affiliation. In Makkah they were "foreigners" and there was no one to protect them. All three were savagely tortured by Abu Jahl and the other infidels. Sumayya, Yasir's wife, died while she was being tortured. She thus became the First Martyr in Islam. A little later, her husband, Yasir, was also tortured to death, and he became the Second Martyr in Islam. Quraysh had stained their hands with innocent blood! In the roster of martyrs, Sumayya and her husband, Yasir, rank among the highest. They were killed for no reason other than their devotion to Allah and their love for Islam and Muhammad Mustafa. Those Muslims who were killed in the battles of Badr and Uhud, had an army to defend and to support them. But Yasir and his wife had no one to defend them; they bore no arms, and they were the most defenseless of all the martyrs of Islam. By sacrificing their lives, they highlighted the truth of Islam, and they built strength into its structure. They made the tradition of sacrifice and martyrdom an integral part of the ethos of Islam." 772: 181: 948:
persecuted Muslims of low social rank. Sumayyah's family was vulnerable after the death of their patron, and it was other members of the Makhzum clan who tortured them to pressure them to abandon their faith. On one occasion she was put inside a pitcher full of water and lifted so that she could not
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Ammar ibn Yasser was also one of the earliest converts to Islam. As noted before, his mother and father were tortured to death by the pagans in Makkah. They were the first and the second martyrs of Islam, and this is a distinction that no one in all Islam can share with
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At a later date, Abu Hudhayfa freed both Sumayyah and her son Ammar; but they remained his clients for the rest of his life. It is said both that Abu Hudhayfa died "before Islam" and that he was "one of those who mocked the Prophet".
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The family all members of which accepted Islam before any other family, was the Yasir family. Yasir, his wife, and their son, Ammar, all three accepted Islam simultaneously, and they were among the earliest
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and her son Ammar. "To display Islam" might refer to something other than conversion since, according to another tradition, Ammar was not converted until after the
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slave named Azraq after Yasir's death. They had a son named Salamah and their bloodline eventually married into the
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escape. She, Yasir and Ammar were also forced to stand in the sun in the heat of the day dressed in mail-coats.
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Although described as "a very old and frail woman", Sumayyah remained steadfast and refused to abandon Islam.
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According to one tradition, Sumayyah was one of the first seven "to display Islam", the other six being
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is not explicitly mentioned in Ibn Ishaq; it is a deduction from the reference to her son as
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Muhammad ibn Saad (1995), "Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir", in Translated by Bewley, A. (ed.),
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was also martyred for his conversion to Islam. Her full name is said to be
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History of al-Tabari Vol. 39, The: Biographies of the Prophet's Companions
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A restatement of the history of Islam & Muslims : C.E. 570 to 661
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A restatement of the history of Islam & Muslims : C.E. 570 to 661
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mentions an alternative account of Sumayyah's life. He says she married a
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Volume 39: Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors
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A restatement of the history of Islam & Muslims: C.E. 570 to 661
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The earliest reference to the murder of Sumayya is found in
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c.566. Yasir also had two brothers, Hurth and Abdullah,
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Sumayyah bint Khayyat
Mecca
Hejaz
martyr
Ummah
Muhammad
companion
Yasir ibn Amir
Ammar ibn Yasir
a series
Islam

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Oneness
God
Angels
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Day of Resurrection
Predestination
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Quran
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