Tuhia he korero mo tenei waahanga - Ko Sufyan no te peka Ghamid o te iwi Azd Sarat e noho ana i te tonga o Hejaz (hauauru o Arapia). He hoa ia no te poropiti Islamic a Muhammad. I te wā o te raupatu Muslim o Hiria Byzantine, i uru ia ki te whakapae me te hopu i Ramahiku
i te tau 634 ranei 635 hei rangatira mo Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah. I te wa o te caliphate o Uthman (), ka noho ia hei tangata pono ki te kawana o Hiria a Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan. Mo tetahi wa, i whakatuhia e te whakamutunga a Sufyan "ṣāḥib al-ṣawāʾif", ara ko te rangatira rangatira o nga haerenga raumati ki te rohe Byzantine i Anatolia, puta noa i te rohe raki.