Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Sakhr ibn Harb ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams (; <unk> ), wanda aka fi sani da "kunya" Abu Sufyan (), fitaccen abokin hamayya ne ya zama abokin Annabi Muhammadu. Ya kasance shugaba kuma dan kasuwa daga kabilar Quraysh na Makka. A farkon aikinsa, sau da yawa yakan jagoranci 'yan kasuwa zuwa Siriya. Ya kasance daga cikin manyan shugabannin 'yan adawa na Makka ga Muhammadu, annabin Islama kuma memba na Quraysh, yana jagorantar' yan Makka a yakin Uhudu
da Trench a cikin 625 da 627. Koyaya, lokacin da Muhammad ya shiga Makka a 630, Abu Sufyan yana ɗaya daga cikin na farko da ya miƙa wuya kuma an ba shi matsayi a cikin jihar musulmi mai tasowa, yana taka rawa a Yaƙin Hunayn da kuma halakar da aka yi na al-Lat a Ta'if. Bayan mutuwar Muhammadu, ana iya sanya shi gwamnan Najran ta Halifa Abu Bakr () na wani lokaci da ba a bayyana ba. Daga baya Abu Sufyan ya taka rawar gani a cikin sojojin musulmai a yakin Yarmouk da Byzantines a Siriya. 'Ya'yansa maza Yazid da kuma Mu'awiya daga baya an ba su matsayin shugabanci a wannan lardin kuma na biyun ya ci gaba da kafa Khalifancin Umayyad a shekara ta 661.