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Sufyanid family tree

Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656) Abu Sufyan Prophet Muhammad Amr Hanzala Yazid Amr Mu'awiya I Anbasa Utba Muhammad Ramla Ramla Abd Allah Yazid I (r. 680–683) Uthman Al-Walid Uthman Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) Atika Mu'awiya II (r. 683–684) Khalid Abd Allah Abd Allah Qasim Yazid Atika Yazid II (r. 720–724) Abd Allah Harb Yazid Ziyad Muhammad Umm Yazid Sulayman (r. 715–717) Abda Hisham (r. 724–743) Al-Walid II (r. 743–744) Ali Abu Sufyan Abu Sufyan Hashim Abbas Yazid Qasim Sa'id Mu'awiya Uthman   Dashed line indicates marriage   Italicized indicates female   Sufyanid caliphs   Marwanid caliphs   Nominated successors to the caliph   Sufyanid claimants to the caliphate during Abbasid rule

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Notes

First generation (children of Abu Sufyan)

• Hanzala ibn Abi Sufyan was the eldest son Abu Sufyan and his wife Hind bint Utba and was slain by the Muslims at the Battle of Badr in 624.
• Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan was one of the principal commanders of the Muslim conquest of Syria. He died without progeny in 639.
• Amr ibn Abi Sufyan was taken captive at the Battle of Badr but released. He died without children.
• Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan (Mu'awiya I), founder and first caliph of Umayyad Caliphate (r. 661–680) and the 'Sufyanid' line of the ruling Umayyad dynasty.
• Anbasa ibn Abi Sufyan, a son of Abu Sufyan's Dawsi wife, the governor of Mecca under his brother, Caliph Mu'awiya I, in 661/662, 662/663 and 667/668. He owned significant tracts of land around Mecca.
• Utba ibn Abi Sufyan, son of Abu Sufyan's wife Hind bint Utba (as were Mu'awiya I and Hanzala). He was governor of Egypt in 664–665 and Mecca in 666/667.
• Muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan
• Ramla bint Abi Sufyan, a wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Second generation

• Ramla bint Mu'awiya, a wife of Caliph Uthman's son Amr ibn Uthman.
• Abd Allah ibn Mu'awiya, the eldest son of Mu'awiya I from his Qurayshite wife Fakhita bint Qurayza al-Nawfaliyya, passed over for the succession to the caliphate in favor of his younger brother, Yazid I, whose mother belonged to the leading family of the Banu Kalb tribe, the military mainstay of Sufyanid rule.
• Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (Yazid I), second caliph of Umayyad Caliphate (r. 680–683).
• Uthman ibn Anbasa, contender to succeed his nephew, Caliph Mu'awiya II, having support from the key tribe of Banu Kalb in Jordan. He ultimately joined his maternal uncle, Ibn al-Zubayr, who was recognized as the anti-Umayyad caliph in Mecca.
• Al-Walid ibn Utba
• Uthman ibn Muhammad, governor of Medina under his cousin, Caliph Yazid I, in 682–683.

Third generation

• Atika bint Yazid, favorite wife of Caliph Abd al-Malik and mother of his son, Caliph Yazid II (r. 720–724).
• Mu'awiya ibn Yazid (Mu'awiya II), third caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate (r. 683–684). His mother was from the Banu Kalb.
• Khalid ibn Yazid, proposed successor of his half-brother, Caliph Mu'awiya II, who did not nominate a successor, by the Sufyanids' tribal mainstay, the Banu Kalb. In this proposal, Khalid was to be followed by his other half-brother, Abd Allah, both of whom were born to Qurayshite mothers. As both were still youths, the Umayyads' tribal supporters passed them over in favor of an Umayyad elder statesman from a different branch of the family, Marwan I r. 684–685), founder of the Marwanid line of caliphs which ruled until the dynasty's fall to the Abbasids in 750. In this arrangement, Khalid was to succeed Marwan I, but the latter removed him from the line of succession in favor of his own son, Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). Khalid was wed to Caliph Abd al-Malik's daughter A'isha and served him as a commander.
• Abd Allah ibn Yazid, nicknamed al-Uswar (the 'Horseman'), he was a noted commander under Caliph Abd al-Malik.
• (unlisted) Abu Sufyan (or Abu Aban) ibn Yazid, son of Yazid I's Umayyad wife, Umm Uthman, daughter of Sa'id ibn al-As.
• (unlisted) Abu Utba ibn Yazid, other son of Yazid I's Umayyad wife Umm Uthman, daughter of Sa'id ibn al-As.
• Abd Allah ibn Uthman ibn Anbasa, a courtier of Caliph Abd al-Malik.
• Al-Qasim ibn al-Walid, al-Walid ibn Utba's son with his wife, the Hashimid Lubaba bint Ubaydallah ibn Abbas.
• Yazid ibn Uthman ibn Muhammad, imprisoned by Caliph Yazid III along with his Sufyanid kinsmen Yazid ibn Khalid ibn Yazid and Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani in 744.
• Atika bint Uthman ibn Muhammad, wife of Caliph al-Walid II and mother of his son, Uthman. The latter and his brother al-Hakam were nominated as young boys by al-Walid II as his chosen successors. After al-Walid II was assassinated, both brothers were imprisoned and killed by opposing Umayyads amid the Third Muslim Civil War in 744.

Fourth generation

• Abd Allah ibn Khalid ibn Yazid
• Harb ibn Khalid ibn Yazid, a transmitter cited in the early Islamic tradition, including by al-Mada'ini.
• Yazid ibn Khalid ibn Yazid, a partisan commander of Caliph al-Walid II against their kinsman, Yazid III, who upon succeeding to the caliphate after al-Walid II's killing in 744, imprisoned Yazid.
• Ziyad ibn Abd Allah ibn Yazid, better known as 'Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani', he proclaimed himself caliph amid the toppling of the Umayyad dynasty by the Abbasids in 750 and led an abortive Qaysi-Yamani tribal coalition against the Abbasids.
• Umm Yazid bint Abd Allah ibn Yazid, wife of Caliph Sulayman (r. 715–717), and mother of his sons Yazid (leader of his father's descendants in Palestine), al-Qasim and Abd al-Rahman.
• Abda bint Abd Allah ibn Yazid, wife of Caliph Hisham, she was killed by Abbasid forces in Homs, possibly for refusing to divulge the location of family treasure

Fifth generation

• Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Khalid ibn Yazid, better known as 'Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani' (b. between 720 and 730), he gained power in Damascus and other parts of Abbasid Syria in 813 in an abortive bid to claim the caliphate during the Fourth Muslim Civil War.
• Abu Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Khalid
• Abu Sufyan ibn Yazid ibn Khalid
• Hashim ibn Yazid ibn Khalid, nominal leader (claimant to the caliphate) of short-lived Yamani rebellion against the Abbasids in Damascus under military command of Ibn Suraqa, in 754–755.
• Al-Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Yazid, leader of a rebellion in Aleppo against the Abbasid Revolution in 750.

Sixth generation

• Al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Khalid, deputy commander of his father, Abu al-Umaytir al-Sufyani, and killed in battle against Qaysi opposition in 813.
• Sa'id ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb, recorded as a resident of Syria and married to a descendant of Caliph Uthman, A'isha bint Sa'id ibn Abdallah.
• Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Yazid, a commander of the army of Caliph al-Walid II and defector to his opponents in the Third Muslim Civil War in 744.

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