Kammala wannan jumla: Sufyan na cikin reshen Ghamid na kabilar Azd Sarat da ke zaune a kudancin Hejaz (yammacin Arabiya). Ya kasance abokin Annabi Muhammadu. A lokacin mamayar musulmi na Byzantine Syria, ya shiga cikin
kewaye da kama Dimashƙu a 634 ko 635 a matsayin laftan na Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah. A lokacin Khalifancin Uthman (), ya zama mai aminci ga gwamnan Siriya Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan. A wani lokaci, na biyun ya nada Sufyan "ṣāḥib al-ṣawāʾif", watau babban kwamandan tafiye-tafiyen bazara zuwa yankin Byzantine a Anatolia, a ƙetaren iyakar arewa.