by Tahira Riaz Hazrat Sumayyah and her family, may Allah be pleased with them, have great prominence in the history of Islam. Both Hazrat Sumayyah^(ra) and her husband Hazrat Yaasir^(ra) are among the first seven people who embraced Islam as their religion. As a result, they were severely tortured and eventually martyred by the disbelievers of Makkah. Hazrat Sumayyah^(ra) is the first woman to lay down her life for Islam while her husband, Hazrat Yaasir^(ra), became the first man to lay down his l...