Marwan ibn al-Hakam
Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya; he rode in Abdallah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh's reinforced army to Ifriqiya in Uthman's raid with his brother al-Harith ibn al-Hakam; his rule came later, after Mu'awiya ibn Yazid's death amid Ibn al-Zubayr's fitna.
Reign · Umayyad Caliphate · no. 4 in the chain · 684–685 CE
Ruled the caliphate
Events of the reign
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Caliphate of Mu'awiya ibn Yazid
Mu'awiya II ibn Yazid succeeded by his father's testament in Rabi' I 64, a righteous youth; he remained ill throughout, never appearing before the people nor leading them in prayer. His caliphate lasted forty days — some say two or three months — and he died aged twenty or twenty-one. When urged at his deathbed to name a successor he answered: 'I have tasted none of its sweetness — why should I shoulder its bitterness?'.
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Construction of the Dome of the Rock under Abd al-Malik
Building of the Dome of the Rock over the sacred rock in the Haram at Jerusalem, ordered by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan; begun in 66 AH (685 CE) and finished in 72 AH (691 CE), the book says, with its cost drawn from seven years of Egypt's land revenue.
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The Caliphate of Marwan ibn al-Hakam
After Mu'awiya II's death Marwan ibn al-Hakam rose and mastered Syria then Egypt until he died in 65, having willed the succession to his son Abd al-Malik. Al-Dhahabi judges that Marwan is not reckoned among the commanders of the faithful — he was a rebel in revolt against Ibn al-Zubayr, whose testament to his son carried no validity; Abd al-Malik's caliphate became sound only from Ibn al-Zubayr's death.
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The Second Fitna
Draft card for the Second Fitna, the civil wars of the late Umayyad house after Yazid's death, from Ibn al-Zubayr's rising to the Marwanid restoration under Abd al-Malik; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
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Uprising of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
Draft card for Uprising of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi; its sources are not yet checked on the page.