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.

However, the Shi'a Islam History claims that Umayya was not the real son of Abd-Shams, but that the latter, when visiting Rome, he saw a child being sold in miserable conditions. Being childless he adopted Ummaya and took him to Arabia where he was brought up. When Ummaya was young he departed from Quraish tribe^{[citation needed][original research?]}.