Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Mashoko ane chokuita noupenyu hwaMuslim achiri muduku nebasa rake haanyatsozivikanwi. Zvingangodaro kuti akaberekwa nguva yeHijra isati yasvika muna 622, kutanga kwekarenda yechiIslam. Akanga ari mwanakomana womumwe Uqba weBanu Murra, bazi rorudzi rwechiArab rweGhatafan. VaMuslim vangangodaro vakatamira kuSyria vachibva kuArabia panguva yekukunda kwevaMuslim mudunhu iri muma630. Akava mutsigiri akazvipira wemhuri yeUmayyad yemubati wedunhu, Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan. Mukati meHondo Yenyika Yokutanga yevaMuslim
, Muslim akazviratidza semutungamiri wechikwata chevarwi veSyria muuto raMu'awiya muhondo yeSiffin muUpper Mesopotamia kurwisa Caliph Ali (656<unk>661) nevatsigiri vake. Zvisinei, akakundikana kutora Dumat al-Jandal oasis kuchamhembe kweArabia muhondo yakazotevera. Mu'awiya paakava mutongi muna 661, akapa Muslim basa rinobhadhara romuteresi wenyika muPalestine, kunyange zvazvo aizivikanwa kuti haana kushandisa nzvimbo iyi kuti azvipfumise. Gare gare, apo Mu'awiya akanga ari pamubhedha wake wekufa, akaita Muslim uye gavhuna weDhamasiko, al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, regents kusvikira mwanakomana wake uye akasarudzwa mutsivi, Yazid I (( 680 <unk> 683), akadzokera kuSyria kubva kunhandare yehondo neByzantine muAnatolia.