Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A zamanin Umayyad, Shayban ya kasance mai iko a Jazira. Shabib ibn Yazid ibn Nu'aym al-Shaybani ya sami damar tayar da babbar tawayen da Kharijite ya yi wahayi zuwa gare shi a cikin 690s a kan al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, kamar yadda al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani ya yi a 745<unk>746. A karkashin farkon Abbasids, shahararrun Shaybani sune dangin Ma'n ibn Za'ida, tsohon bawan Umayyad wanda ya sami afuwar al-Mansur. 'Ya'yansa maza da musamman' ya'yan dan uwansa, Yazid ibn Mazyad da Ahmad ibn Mazyad, sun mamaye manyan mukamai. Yazid ibn Mazyad ya yi wa Khalifa Harun al-Rashid hidima tare da nasara a matsayin janar, har ma ya shawo kan tawayen Kharijite a karkashin abokin Shaybani al-Walid ibn Tarif al-Shari, yayin da ɗan'uwansa Ahmad ya tafi tare da 'yan kabilar 20,000 don taimakon Khalifa al-Amin a cikin yakin basasa
a kan al-Ma'mun. Yazid ya kuma yi aiki sau biyu a matsayin gwamnan "Arminiya" (wani lardi mai girma da ya hada da Armenia da Azerbaijan), inda aka gudanar da mulkin mallaka mai yawa tare da Larabawa Musulmai, musamman a Shirvan. 'Ya'yansa maza Asad, Muhammad da Khalid ne suka gaje shi, ya zama na farko na dogon layin gwamnonin Shaybani kuma magajin daular Mazyadid wanda ya yi mulki a Shirvan a matsayin mai cin gashin kansa kuma daga baya ya zama mai zaman kansa ("Shirvanshah") har zuwa 1027.