Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Sufyan aiva werudzi rweGhamid rworudzi rweAzd Sarat rwaiva kumaodzanyemba kweHejaz (kumadokero kweArabia). Akanga ari shamwari yomuprofita wechiIslam Muhammad. Mukati mokukunda kwechiMuslim kweByzantine Syria, akatora rutivi mu
kukombwa uye kutorwa kweDhamasiko muna 634 kana 635 semutevedzeri 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.