Samma al-Baradan () is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Samma al-Baradan had a population of 1,296 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

History In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Samma (dir nazd Kafr Taman), as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 20 households and 10 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (6000 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (1600 a.) goats and beehives (300 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (200 a.); the taxes totalled 9,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah 1977, p. 211

In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Summa el-Buradan, a ruin located east of Salkhad.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 160

See also Druze in Syria

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