Bayt Baws (Arabic: بيت بوس Bayt Baws) is a historic village and fortress in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.

[1][2] It is a largely deserted Jewish settlement.

[2] It served as a locally important stronghold throughout the middle ages and was especially used as a staging point for campaigns against Sanaa.

[2] Its period of greatest significance was during the campaigns of Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, the first Imam of Yemen.

‘Abd Il b. Sharḥabīl b. Marāthid b. Dhī Saḥar[4] or as Dhū Baws b. Barīl b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.