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 "id": "person/nusayba-bint-kab",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "nusayba-bint-kab",
 "label": {
  "en": "Nusayba bint Ka'b (Umm Umara)",
  "ar": "نسيبة بنت كعب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "An Ansari woman of Medina who pledged at Aqaba and fought at Uhud shielding the Prophet with sword and shield — the tradition's most famous woman warrior of the first generation.",
  "ar": "امرأة أنصارية من أهل المدينة بايعت في العقبة وقاتلت يوم أُحد مدافعة عن النبي بالسيف والترس — أشهر مقاتلة في الجيل الأول عند التراث."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "battles",
  "wars-and-campaigns"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 590.0017796395546,
  "latest": 591.0011156970736
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0590~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Birth year not recorded; approximate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أم عمارة"
   },
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "نسيبة بنت كعب بن عمرو المازنية"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0590~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Birth year not recorded; approximate.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0621"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "One of the two women who pledged at the second Aqaba.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0621"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "protector",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625-03"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0625-03"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Fought in the defense around the Prophet at Uhud and was wounded.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-ubayy",
  "person/abu-bakr",
  "person/abu-dharr-al-ghifari",
  "person/abu-jahl",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/abu-ubayda-ibn-al-jarrah",
  "person/al-aswad-al-ansi",
  "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/khazraj",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/ansar",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/pledges-of-aqaba",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "pledged-as-one-of-two-women",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-uhud",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "defender-of-the-prophet",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-yamama",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "wounded-fighter",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-donner-1993"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/medina",
  "group/ansar",
  "person/muadh-ibn-jabal",
  "person/muhammad",
  "event/pledges-of-aqaba",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "event/battle-of-the-trench",
  "group/early-muslims"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}