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Death of Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik

وفاة يزيد بن عبد الملك

c. January 724 CE · Sha'ban 105 AH

Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik died in late Sha'ban year 105; Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz had written to him on his own deathbed: 'you leave the world to one who will not praise you, and pass on to One who will not excuse you' 1.

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Era
The Umayyad Period
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710720730740 c.
The Umayyad Period

Overview

The Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik died in late Sha'ban 105 AH. 2

Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's letter

al-Suyuti relates that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to Yazid when he was dying: "You are leaving the world to one who will not praise you, and going to one who will not excuse you." 2

Dating

The Gregorian year (around 724 CE) is derived from the Hijri year and is not stated in the source. 3

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يزيد بن عبد الملك

People and things also explored

Yazid's Departure from Umar's Way After Forty Days· Muwatta 1734· Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan· al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik· عمر بن عبد العزيز· يزيد بن عبد الملك

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 399-400
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.399-400
  3. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.400
  • The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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Yazid's Departure from Umar's Way After Forty Days

On accession Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik proclaimed 'follow the sira of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz' and forty elders testified for him that there is no reckoning or torment upon caliphs; per Ibn al-Majishun he held to Umar's ways forty days, then turned aside.