Patience, family of Yâsir

Yâsir ibn 'Âmir came from Yemen to Mecca with two of his brothers, looking for another brother.

The two went home. Yâsir stayed, and became the ally of Abû Hudhayfa ibn al-Mughîra, of Banû Makhzûm.

Abû Hudhayfa married him to a slave woman of his, Sumayya. She bore him a son: 'Ammâr.

Abû Hudhayfa freed 'Ammâr. But he remained among the oppressed: those with no clan in Mecca to defend them.

When Islam came, Yâsir, Sumayya, 'Ammâr and his brother 'Abdullâh became Muslims (may Allah be pleased with them).

'Ammâr said: “I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ when no one was with him but five slaves, two women and Abû Bakr.”

Ibn Mas'ûd (may Allah be pleased with him) names the first seven who showed their Islam openly.

Two of the seven come from this one house: 'Ammâr, and his mother Sumayya.

Allah protected the Prophet ﷺ through his uncle, and Abû Bakr through his people. The others were seized.

Banû Makhzûm would take 'Ammâr, his father and his mother out when the noon heat was at its height.

They tortured them on the ramdâ' of Mecca: the ground, when the sun has made it burn.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would pass by while this was being done to them.

His words to them, as the biographers have passed them down:

“Patience, family of Yâsir. Your appointed meeting is Paradise.”

Of the mother, one line: they killed her, and she refused anything but Islam.

She was an old, frail woman, tortured to make her turn back. She did not.

She held on until Abû Jahl passed by one day. He stabbed her in the heart with a spear, and she died.

She is called the first martyr in Islam.

Years later, when Abû Jahl fell at Badr, the Prophet ﷺ told 'Ammâr that his mother's killer had been killed.