Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Sufyan aiva webazi reGhamid reAzd Sarat dzinza rinogara kumaodzanyemba kweHejaz (kumadokero kweArabia). Akanga ari shamwari yomuprofita wechiIslam Muhammad. Munguva yokukunda kwevaMuslim yeSiriya yeByzantium, akabatanidzwa mukukomba nokutora Dhamasiko
muna 634 kana kuti 635 somutevedzeri waAbu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah. Munguva yehutongi hwaOthman (), akava akavimbika kuna gavhuna weSyria Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan. Kwenguva yakati, wekupedzisira akagadza Sufyan "ṣāḥib al-ṣawāʾif", kureva mukuru mukuru wekutsvaga kwezhizha munzvimbo yeByzantine muAnatolia, mhiri kwemuganhu wekuchamhembe.