Zum'ah ibn Al-Aswad

Zumʿah ibn al-Aswad ibn al-Muṭṭalib was a prominent Qurayshī man of the Banū Muṭṭalib branch, the youngest and most beloved son of al-Aswad ibn al-Muṭṭalib. He was killed at the Battle of Badr (17 Ramaḍān 2 AH / 624 CE) fighting on the Qurayshī side.

When al-Ḥayṣamān al-Khuzāʿī arrived in Makkah as the first bearer of the news of defeat, he named Zumʿah among the list of the Qurayshī elite who had fallen. His death was part of the catastrophic loss of the Qurayshī leadership at Badr.

His father al-Aswad would later be denied the right to publicly mourn for him due to Abū Sufyān's ban on wailing, compounding the family's grief. The specific tenderness with which Ibn Hishām notes that al-Aswad most loved his youngest son Zumʿah has preserved a small human detail in the otherwise impersonal record of Badr's casualties.