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 "slug": "sumayya-bint-khayyat",
 "label": {
  "en": "Sumayya bint Khayyat",
  "ar": "سمية بنت خياط"
 },
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  "en": "An elderly woman of the first converts, tortured in Mecca for her faith; the tradition counts her the first martyr of Islam, mother of the Companion Ammar ibn Yasir.",
  "ar": "امرأة مسنة من أول المسلمين، عُذّبت في مكة على دينها؛ ويعدّها التراث أول شهيد في الإسلام، أم الصحابي عمار بن ياسر."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [
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 ],
 "periods": [
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 ],
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 "themes": [
  "women",
  "slavery-and-freedom",
  "anti-muslim-hatred"
 ],
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   "edtf": "0560~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Birth year not recorded; she was an older woman at her death.",
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   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0615~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Killed under torture in Mecca, before the Hijra; the tradition counts her the first martyr of Islam.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  }
 },
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "سمية بنت خياط"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0560~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Birth year not recorded; she was an older woman at her death.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0615~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Killed under torture in Mecca, before the Hijra; the tradition counts her the first martyr of Islam.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
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   "sunni"
  ],
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   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
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    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "martyr",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0615~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The tradition names her the first person killed for embracing Islam.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "victim",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0615~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Tortured by Abu Jahl and the Meccan leadership for her faith.",
    "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"
  }
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  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/khadija",
  "person/mutim-ibn-adi",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/waraqa-ibn-nawfal",
  "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib"
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  {
   "to": "person/ammar-ibn-yasir",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true
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  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
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  {
   "to": "group/early-muslims",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
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  {
   "to": "person/yasir-ibn-amir",
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   "inverse": false,
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/first-muslim-martyrdom",
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   "inverse": false,
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   ]
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   "to": "event/persecution-of-mustadafin",
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   "inverse": false,
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  "group/quraysh",
  "person/ikrima-ibn-abi-jahl",
  "person/musab-ibn-umayr"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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