Sumayyah bint Khayyat

Sumayyah bint Khayyat
Born	c.550
Died	c.615 C.E. Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Nationality	Afro-Arabs
Other names	Sumayyah bint Khabbat
Known for	Being the first martyr of the Ummah (Arabic: أمّـة‎‎, Community) of Muhammad, and a female companion of his
Spouse(s)	Yasir ibn Amir
Children	Ammar ibn Yasir
Parent(s)	Khayyat (father)
Relatives	Horayth ibn Yasir, Abdullah ibn Yasir (sons or stepsons)

Sumayyah bint Khayyat (Arabic: سمية بنت خياطّ‎‎) (c.550-c.615) was the first member of the Ummah (Arabic: أمّـة‎‎, Community) of Muhammad to become a shahidah (Arabic: شـهـيـدة‎‎, female martyr).

She was a slave in the possession of Abu Hudhayfa ibn al-Mughira, a member of the Makhzum clan in Mecca.

Her master gave her in marriage to Yasir ibn Amir, who was from the Malik clan of the Madhhij tribe in Yemen. After coming to Mecca to look for a lost brother, he had decided to settle there under Abu Hudhayfa's protection. Sumayyah gave birth to their son Ammar c.566. Yasir also had two other sons, Hurth and Abdullah, but there is no indication that Sumayyah was their mother.

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 that Abu Hudhayfa died "before Islam"; but it is also said that he was "one of those who mocked the Prophet".

According to one tradition, Sumayyah was one of the first seven "to display Islam," the other six being Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Bilal, Khabbab, Suhayb 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 Muslims had entered the house of al-Arqam "after thirty men". Yasir and his son Abdullah were also converted "on the rise of Islam," but Hurth had been killed by the Dil clan before 610.

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