وفاة الوليد بن عبد الملك

وفاة الوليد بن عبد الملك

96 ھ

In the year 96, in the middle of Jumada II, al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik died. Al-Tabari gives differing accounts of the length of his caliphate and of his age ¹. In al-Suyuti he died in the middle of Jumada II of the year 96, aged fifty-one; al-Dhahabi said that jihad lived in his days and great conquests were opened in them, as in the days of Umar ibn al-Khattab ². The book relates that al-Walid wanted to depose Sulayman and install his son Abd al-Aziz, but Sulayman refused; no one pledged allegiance except al-Hajjaj, Qutayba and a select few, and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz refused to pledge allegiance to Abd al-Aziz. Al-Walid died on a Saturday in the middle of Jumada II of the year 96 AH ³.