Sufyan

Sufyan is an Arabic name.

  • Nader Sufyan Abbas (born 1975), Qatari weightlifter
  • Abu Sufyan Al-Azdi (1973–2013), Saudi Arabian deputy leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
  • Khaled bin Sufyan Al-Hathali belonged to the Banu Lahyan tribe at the time of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
  • Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (560–652), leader of the Quraish tribe of Mecca
  • Muawiyah ibn-abi-Sufyan or Muawiyah I (602–680) established the Umayyad Dynasty of the caliphate
  • Sufyan Ben Qumu or Abu Sufian bin Qumu (born 1959), citizen of Libya held in Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba
  • Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, son of Ḥārith ibn Abd al-Muttalib and a sahaba (companion) and a cousin of Muhammad
  • Ramla bint Abi Sufyan (c. 594–666), a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers
  • Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), American singer
  • Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778), tabi'i Islamic scholar, Hafiz and jurist, founder of the Thawri madhhab
  • Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah (725–814), prominent eighth-century Islamic religious scholar from Mecca
  • Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan, one of the companions of Muhammad
  • Yazid Ibn Muawiyah Ibn Abu Sufyan or Yazid I, (647–683), the second Caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate
  • Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (died 673 AD), Muslim general and administrator and a member of the clan of the Umayyads

See also

  • Harf Sufyan District, district of the 'Amran Governorate, Yemen
  • Sufan (disambiguation)
  • Sufyani
  • Sofiane (disambiguation)
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