| Bayt Baws | |
| Native Name: | بيت بوس |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Yemen |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Yemen |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Yemen |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sanaa |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bani Matar |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Timezone: | Yemen Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 15.2731°N 44.2036°W[1] |
| Elevation M: | 2341 |
Bayt Baws (Arabic: بيت بوس) is a historic village and fortress in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.[1] [2] It is a largely deserted Jewish settlement.[3] It is located to the south of Sanaa, in a strategic position on the western side of the Sanaa plain.[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.[2] According to tradition, Bayt Baws is named after a person named Dhū Baws, whose genealogy is given either as Dhū Baws b. ‘Abd al-Rahmān b. Zayd b. ‘Abd Il b. Sharḥabīl b. Marāthid b. Dhī Saḥar[4] or as Dhū Baws b. Barīl b. Sharaḥbīl, of the tribe of Himyar.[2]