Umm Anmar (Arabic: أم أنمار الخزاعية) was a seventh-century woman of the Banu Khuza'a who met the companions of Muhammad. She is known to have been female circumciser in Mecca.

Umm Anmar bought the slave Khabbab ibn al-Aratt,[1][2] whose family was from Lower Mesopotamia, and she and her brother Siba'a ibn Abd al-Uzza tortured him. Later, she freed Khabbab after he became a renowned swordsmith, and he went on to become a famous qāriʾ (Quranic reciter) and transmitter of ahadith.

Umm Anmar married Zuhayr ibn Abd al-As'ad, by who she had a son, Anmar.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ Sa'd 2013, pp. 124–125.
  2. ^ Kandemir, M.Yaşar (1996). "HABBÂB b. ERET". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol. 14 (Geli̇bolu – Haddesenâ) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies. p. 340. ISBN 978-975-389-441-8.

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