Sufyān ibn ʿAwf ibn al-Mughaffal al-Azdī al-Ghāmidī (Arabic: سفيان بن عوف بن المغفل الأزدي الغامدي) (died 672 or 673/674) was an Arab commander in the service of the Rashidun caliphs Umar (r. 634–644) and Uthman (r. 644–656) and the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680). He fought as a partisan of Mu'awiya against Caliph Ali during the First Muslim Civil War, leading a raid against the latter's forces in Iraq. Throughout his military career, he was major commander in the wars with the Byzantine Empire. Though the medieval Arabic, Greek and Syriac accounts are not entirely consistent, he most likely was at the head of a large Arab army that was decisively defeated by the Byzantines in 673/74 and was slain during the battle.
Yazid ibn Abi Sufyanibn Harb ibn Umayya (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي سفيان بن حرب بن أمية, romanized: Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyānibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya; died 639) was...
al-Rahman ibnAwf, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Sa`îd ibn Zayd, and Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah. Abu Bakr `Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa Ali ibn Abi Talib Aqeel ibn Abi Talib...
amongst them: Abdur Rahman bin Awf, Saad ibn Abi Waqqas, Talha ibn Ubaidullah, Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abi Talib and Zubayr ibn al-Awwam. All six are among...
associates to do likewise. Among them were Talha, Abd al-Rahman ibnAwf, Uthman ibn Affan, and Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. Talha was said to have been one of the first...
Jamila was the daughter of Thabit ibn Abi al-Aflah and Al-Shamus bint Abi Amir, who were both from the 'Amr ibnAwf clan of the Aws tribe in Medina. Her...
been killed during that campaign of the civil war. Muawiyah also sent SufyanibnAwf to Iraq to burn the crops and homes of Ali's supporters. During the...
men who had fought in the battle of Badr. Some of them (Abd-al-Rahman ibnAwf) felt it (did not like that) and said to Umar: "Why do you bring in this...
an alliance with Harb ibn Umayya, and the family remained under the protection of the Umayya clan. Abu Ahmad married Abu Sufyan’s daughter, Al-Faraa, and...
to defect to Ali's principal enemy, the governor of Syria Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan. The latter made Ubayd Allah a commander of his elite battalion at the...
Abdul Rahman ibnAwf, who went out of his way to look for and seize Umayyah in order to protect his life.[citation needed] Umayyah ibn Khalaf was killed...
Ziyad ibn Abihi (Arabic: أبو المغيرة زياد بن أبيه, romanized: Abū al-Mughīra Ziyād ibn Abīhi; c. 622–673), also known as Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic:...
Umar, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Abu Sufyanibn al-Harith, Fadl ibn Abbas, Rabi' ibn al-Harith, Usama ibn Zayd and...
themselves. This committee was: Ali Uthman ibn Affan Abd al-Rahman ibnAwf Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas Zubayr ibn al-Awwam Talha ibn Ubayd Allah According to Yaqoubi history...
send their leader, Abu Sufyanibn Harb, to Medina for the renegotiation of the treaty. Following the incident, Abu Sufyanibn Harb journeyed to Medina...
Hattab). Sufyanibn Maamar of the Juma clan. Hasana (wife of Sufyan). Jabir ibnSufyan of the Juma clan (son of Sufyan and Hasana). Junada ibnSufyan of the...
Muhammad's cousin Ali, al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, Talha ibn Ubayd Allah, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and Abd al-Rahman ibnAwf, all of whom were close, early companions...
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