al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik

Al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik, the eleventh Umayyad caliph. He was the son of Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik, and succeeded Hisham by his designation. His cousin Yazid ibn al-Walid killed him in 126 AH. ²

Al-Suyuti says that the Musnad of Ahmad contains a hadith about a man called al-Walid who would be harder on the community than Pharaoh was on his people. Ibn Fadl Allah describes him as an arrogant tyrant, and says that he shot the Qur'an with arrows. ²

Al-Mas'udi says that he was given the allegiance on the day Hisham died in 125 AH, and was killed at al-Bakhra' near Damascus. He took singers and showed wine and entertainments, and was called the debauched one of the Marwanids. ³

The length of his caliphate and his age at his killing differ between the two sources: six months and an age of thirty-five or forty-six according to al-Suyuti, and a year and two months, aged forty, according to al-Mas'udi. ^{2 3}