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Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Umayya (died 639) was a leading Muslim commander in the conquest of Syria in the 630s.

Early life
Yazid was the son of Abu Sufyan, a chief of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca, belonging to its Banu Abd Shams clan, specifically the Umayyad family. His mother was Zaynab bint Nawfal (also identified as Zaynab bint Hashim) of the Kinana tribe. He embraced Islam with his father and paternal half-brother Mu'awiya when the Islamic prophet Muhammad captured Mecca in 630.

Soon afterward, he fought with the Muslims against the Thaqif tribe and its nomadic allies at the Battle of Hunayn. He was among the Qurayshites who the Islamic prophet won over through the generosity, in his case receiving a present of one hundred camels and forty ounces of silver.

Commander and governor in Syria
Yazid was appointed by Caliph Abu Bakr ((r. 632 – 634)) one of the main commanders of the Muslim conquest of Syria, launched in 633 or 634. Yazid and his men, numbered between 3,000 and 7,500 according to the sources, were initially dispatched to the Balqa east and northeast of the Dead Sea.

In May 634 Yazid and the other main commanders, including Amr ibn al-As, Shurahbil ibn Hasana and Khalid ibn al-Walid, besieged and captured Bosra, the first major Byzantine town to fall to the Muslims in Syria. After their major victory against the Byzantines at the Battle of Ajnadayn, during which Yazid acted a lieutenant commander, he launched operations east of Palestine in the Balqa. There, he captured the Amman fortress in 635. That year he participated in the siege of Damascus.

Following the fall of Damascus in 635, or later in 637, Yazid became the deputy governor of Damascus under Abu Ubayda's overall governorship of Syria. From Damascus, Yazid dispatched lieutenant commanders against various places, including Dihya ibn Khalifa of the Banu Kalb to Palmyra in the desert to the northeast and a certain Zahra of the Banu Qushayr to the Batanea plain in the Hauran region south of Damascus; the defenders of both places capitulated after negotiations. He later left Damascus to confront a Byzantine force led by a patrician, Theodore, sent by Heraclius to recapture the city. Yazid was reinforced by Khalid and the Byzantines were defeated.

In the Battle of the Yarmuk in 636, where the Muslims scored a decisive victory against the Byzantines, which consolidated and extended their conquest of much of Syria, Yazid was one of the four principal field commanders. He and Mu'awiya launched operations against the Syrian littoral, capturing the port towns of Sidon, Beirut and Byblos.

When Abu Ubayda died in the plague of Amwas in 639, Yazid was appointed by Caliph Umar as the governor of Damascus, Jordan and Palestine. The plague had been afflicting much of Syria and took an enormous toll on the Muslim troops there. Later in 639, Yazid succumbed to the plague as well. He did not leave any children. Umar appointed Mu'awiya in his brother's place over Damascus and Jordan.

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Yazid is referred to in later Islamic sources as 'Yazid al-Khayr' (Yazid the Good) because of his positively viewed role in the Syrian conquest. Because of the nature of his death during a state of war he is considered by these sources a shahid (martyr).