Sultan bin Murshid (Arabic: سلطان بن مرشد) (died 1743) was one of the rival Imams during the civil wars in Oman in the final years of the Yaruba dynasty.
[1] His cousin, the Imam Saif bin Sultan II, led a self-indulgent life that turned the tribes against him.
Saif bin Sultan II also raised troops and counter-marched, but was too late to prevent the fall of Rustaq.
[2] Fresh from a victorious campaign in India, the Persian ruler Nader Shah dispatched an expedition of 6,000 men under Mirza Mohammed Taki Khan, which arrived at Julfar around October 1742.
Saif bin Sultan II went by sea to Khor Fakkan and then traveled overland to meet the Persians.
While they were engaged in plunder, Sultan bin Murshid attacked with the combined garrisons of Muttrah and Muscat, destroyed the Persian force and captured several ships.