Ṣafwān ibn Umayya ibn Khalaf ibn Wahb ibn Hudhafa ibn Jumah al-Jumahi (; died 661) was a sahabi (companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Family

He was from the Banu Jumah clan of the Quraysh in Mecca. His father was Umayya ibn Khalaf, one of the elders of the Quraysh; his mother was Karima bint Ma'mar ibn Habib. He had a paternal brother named Ali and a maternal brother named Jabala ibn al-Hanbal.

  1. Umayma bint Abi Sufyan, from the Umayya clan of the Quraysh. She was the mother of his son Abdulrahman.

On request, he once loaned Muhammad 50,000 dirhams.

In November or December, Safwan took a merchant-caravan of silver vessels worth 100,000 dirhams towards Iraq. Zayd ibn Harithah led a raid on this caravan, and they seized all the silver, although the Quraysh men escaped. Safwan fought for Muhammad both at Hunayn, during which battle he remarked to his brother, "I would rather be ruled by a man from Quraysh than a man from Hawazin,"