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Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik died in 125 AH, on the sixth night of Rabi' al-Akhir, according to al-Tabari. 1
What the sources say
al-Tabari mentions the illness of which he died, and gives different accounts of his age. 1
al-Suyuti says that he died in Rabi' al-Akhir, and that he would not bring money into his treasury until forty oaths had been sworn that it had been taken from its owner and that each person with a right had been given his right. He mentions that he built al-Rusafa at Qinnasrin. 2
The details of the illness and the age need an additional source on this page.
Sources
- Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk — al-Tabari (ed. Abu al-Fadl Ibrahim) , j.7 p.200
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 401-402
- Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “Death of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/death-of-hisham-ibn-abd-al-malik/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.