Editing Suwayd b. Amr al-Khath'ami

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 | Full name = Suwayd b. Amr b. Abi Muta' al-Khath'ami 
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|Native name=سُوَیْد بْن عَمْرو الخَثْعَمی}}
'''Suwayd b. Amr al-Khath'ami''' (Arabic:  سُوَیْد بْن عَمْرو الخَثْعَمی) was martyred shortly after the [[martyrdom]] of [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam Hussain]]. Thus, he is known as the last martyr of [[Karbala]].

==Lineage and Character==
Suwayd b. Amr b. Abi Muta' al-Khath'ami was a nobleman from the Khath'am tribe. He was known as a pious man and a skillful and brave warrior.<ref>Samāwī, ''Ibṣār al-ʿayn'', p. 169.</ref>

==Battle of Karbala==
Suwayd was the last person from Imam Hussain's army who went to the battlefield<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 446.</ref>. He fought bravely against [[Yazid]]'s army until he was severely injured and fell down among other martyrs, where he was left for dead. However, Suwayd was still alive, and at some point heard people say that Imam Hussain had been killed. With great effort, he got back on his feet and continued to fight with a dagger (his sword had been taken by an enemy soldier) until he was martyred. It is said that [[Urwa b. Battan al-Tha'labi]] and [[Zayd b. Ruqad al-Junnabi|Zayd b. Riqad al-Janbi]] killed him.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 442; Balādhurī, ''Ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 3, p. 204; Ibn Athīr, ''al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh'', vol. 4, p. 79.</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==

*Balādhurī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-. ''Ansāb al-ashrāf''. Edited by Muḥammad Bāqir Maḥmūdī. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1977.
*Ibn Athīr, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad. ''Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh''. Beirut: Dār al-Ṣādir, 1385 AH.
*Samāwī, Muḥammad al-. ''Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Hussain''. Qom: Zamzam-i Hidāyat, 1384 Sh.
*Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-. ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk''. Beirut: Muʾassisat al-Aʿlamī, 1403 AH.

==Source==

*[http://en.wikishia.net/view/Suwayd_b._%27Amr_al-Khath%27ami WikiShia, An online encyclopedia of the school of Ahl al-Bayt]
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