1) How did the Prophet Muhammad console the family of Ammar ibn Yassir when they were consistently preyed upon by the enemy?

1. He promised to give them a prestigious position once they had migrated to Medina.
2. He would exhort them to patience saying they were destined for Paradise.
3. He promised them that he would slay all their enemies in the coming year.
4. All of the above.

2) Ammar ibn Yassir is believed to have been born approximately:

1. one year before the birth of Prophet Muhammad.
2. three years before the birth of Prophet Muhammad.
3. three year after the birth of Prophet Muhammad.
4. ten years after the birth of Prophet Muhammad.

3) What distinction does Ammar ibn Yassir’s mother hold in Islam?

1. She was the first woman to accept Islam.
2. She was the first martyr in Islam.
3. She was the first woman to migrate to Medina.
4. She was the wealthiest and most charitable woman in Islam.

4) What did Ammar witness which traumatized him?

1. The murder of his uncle in his house.
2. He witnessed his parents being murdered even though they denounced Islam.
3. The torture meted out to him and his parents.
4. The torture meted out to Bilal ibn Rabah.

5) How did the Prophet Muhammad defend the faith of Ammar ibn Yassir?

1. He said “No, indeed Ammar is full of faith from head to toe”.
2. He said that “Ammar’s faith is equivalent to the faith of all the Muslims put together”.
3. He said that “No other Muslim could compare to the faith of Ammar”.
4. He said that “The faith of Ammar would make the Hell fire freeze over”.

6) How did Ammar ibn Yassir and a group of others from the weaker members of the new faith escape the relentless persecution and suffering meted out to them?

1. They were sent by Prophet Muhammad to Abyssinia.
2. They were forced to pay Quraish a large sum of money so that they would be left alone.
3. They disappeared into obscurity on their own accord and never returned back to Makkah.
4. They reverted to their old faiths.

7) The conversion of Ammar’s family drew the attention and hatred of:

1. the minority of Jews living there at that time.
2. the Abyssinians.
3. one of the chieftains of Quraish, Abu Jahl.
4. None of the above.

8) Why was Ammar ibn Yassir tortured and tormented?

1. Because he was too cowardly to resist.
2. Because he was amongst the weaker followers of the new religion.
3. Because he would instigate them by attacking members of their tribe.
4. Because he was the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.

9) The Prophet Muhammad said that Ammar ibn Yassir was as close to him as:

1. his own jugular vein.
2. the span between his fingers.
3. an eye is to a nose.
4. his heart within his chest.