Not to be confused with Yazid ibn Mu'awiya, the second Umayyad caliph.
Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan
Governor of Damascus, Jordan and Palestine
In office 639–639
Monarch
Umar ibn al-Khattab
Succeeded by
Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (over Damascus and Jordan)
Personal details
Born
Mecca
Died
639
Spouse
Fakhita bint Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
Relations
Banu Umayya (clan)
Parent(s)
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Zaynab bint Nawfal
Military service
Allegiance
Rashidun Caliphate
Branch/service
Army
Rank
Field commander (634–639)
Battles/wars
Battle of Hunayn (630)
Muslim conquest of the Levant
Battle of Ajnadayn (634)
Siege of Damascus (634–635)
Battle of the Yarmuk (636)
Siege of Jerusalem (637)
Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Umayya (Arabic: يزيد بن أبي سفيان بن حرب بن أمية, romanized: Yazīd ibn Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayya; died 639) was a leading Arab Muslim commander in the conquest of Syria from 634 until his death in the plague of Amwas in 639. Following the capture of Damascus around 635, he was placed in command of the city and its military district. After the death of the overall Muslim commander of Syria, Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, in 639, he was appointed by Caliph Umar (r. 634–644) the governor of Damascus, Jordan and Palestine.
Yazid was the elder half-brother of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, who was appointed as his successor over Damascus and Jordan by Umar and gradually became governor over all of Syria. In 661 he became caliph and founded the Syria-based Umayyad dynasty.
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