Yazid ibn Mu'awiya

Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, the second caliph of the Umayyads. His mother was Maysun bint Bahdal. He was the son of Mu'awiya of the Banu Umayya ^{1 2}.

al-Baladhuri reports that when Mu'awiya died and his son Yazid succeeded, the army of Cyprus that his father had arranged closed its gate, and Yazid ordered their city demolished. Muhammad ibn Musfa transmits that he was bribed with great wealth to close it, and the people of Cyprus demolished their city and their mosques. He was also the one who imposed the land tax on the lands of Samaria in Jordan, at five dinars per head ¹. See the second raid on Cyprus.

al-Mas'udi reports that after his father's death he entered his house and did not appear to the people for three days. Then he came out, preached, and said that Mu'awiya had been a rope of God's ropes. He describes him as a man of mirth, of hawks, dogs and monkeys, and says that singing appeared in his days in Mecca and Medina ³.

al-Mas'udi reports that when the people of Medina expelled his governor in the year 63 AH, he sent against them Muslim ibn Uqba al-Murri, who terrified and plundered it. He reports that the Ka'ba was demolished by the catapults of al-Husayn ibn Numayr eleven days before his death ⁴.

These are al-Mas'udi's judgements and reports, and they need other sources for comparison.