Umayya ibn Abd Shams
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Umayya ibn Abd Shams is whom the clan of Banu Umayyad is named after. Umayya was son of Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf, and the father of Harb ibn Umayya and Abu al-'As. In accordance to Shia Islam Ummaya was the adopted son of Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf.[citation needed]It is also written in some Islamic history books that he was a slave of Abd Shams.
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