Abu sufyan ibn al-harith
Abu sufyan uncle of prophet muhammad!
Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca and arch-enemy of Muhammad. He converted to Islam immediately before Mecca surrendered to the advancing army of the Prophet.
His kinsman Uthman became the third caliph and his son, Muawiyah I established the first dynastic caliphate, the Ummayads, who ruled from 661 until the Abbasid coup of 750 C.E. However, a branch of the Umayyads established a sultanate in Spain from 756, where from 929 until 1031 they claimed the title caliph.
Abu sufyan ibn harb family tree
Abu Sufyan is a contentious figure, especially between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. The lateness of his conversion has always attracted the charge that he only did so when he had little choice, while Shi'a blame his son and grandson for Ali ibn Abi Talib losing the caliphate and for the murder of Husayn at the Battle of Karbala.
The majority of Sunni, too, supported the Abbasid coup on the basis that the Ummayads were insufficient
