Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Sufyan so n'òtù Ghamid nke ebo Azd Sarat bi n'ebe ndịda Hejaz (ọdịda anyanwụ Arabia). Ọ bụ onye ibe nke onye amụma Alakụba bụ Muhammad. N'oge mmeri ndị Alakụba nke Byzantine Syria, o sonyere na
nnọchibido na ijide Damaskọs n'afọ 634 ma ọ bụ 635 dịka onye nnọchi anya Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah. N'oge caliphate nke Uthman (), ọ ghọrọ onye na-eguzosi ike n'ihe nye gọvanọ Syria bụ Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan. Ruo oge ụfọdụ, nke ikpeazụ a họpụtara Sufyan "ṣāḥib al-ṣawāʾif", ya bụ onye isi ndị ọchịagha nke njem njem oge ọkọchị n'ime ókèala Byzantine na Anatolia, gafee ókèala ugwu.