Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani

Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani
Personal details
Diedc. 754
RelationsYazid I (grandfather)
ParentAbd Allah ibn Yazid
Military service
AllegianceUmayyad dynasty

Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya (Arabic: زياد بن عبد الله بن يزيد بن معاوية), commonly known as Abū Muḥammad al-Sufyānī (Arabic: أبو محمد السفياني) was an Umayyad prince and a pretender to the Umayyad Caliphate, which had been overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate in early 750. Abu Muhammad led a revolt against the Abbasids, but his forces were defeated and he fled to the Hejaz, where he was killed in the early part of the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur's reign.