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Yazid's mother, Maysun, was the daughter of Bahdal ibn Unayf, a chieftain of the powerful Bedouin tribe of Banu Kalb. She was a Christian , like most of her tribe. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Yazid grew up with his maternal Kalbite kin, [ 5 ] spending the springs of his youth in the Syrian Desert ; for the remainder of the year he was in the company of the ...
Maysun was the mother of Mu'awiya's son and nominated successor, Yazid I. She took a considerable interest in educating her son and took him to the desert encampments of the Kalb where Yazid spent part of his youth. She most likely died before Yazid's accession in 680. [7] In the assessment of the historian Nabia Abbott,
Maysun became mother to Mu'awiya's son and successor, Yazid I (r. 680–683). Though Bahdal died before 657, his forging of ties with the Umayyads secured his descendants and tribesmen the most prominent positions in the Umayyad court and military, so much so that partisans of the Umayyads became known as Baḥdaliyya.
Fakhitah was the mother of Yazid's younger son Khalid. Her husband came to the throne in 680. Her husband ruled the Caliphate 680 to 683. Her husband Yazid I, had made the 'bay'ah' to his son Mu'awiya. Mu'awiya II succeeded his father in Damascus in 64 AH (November 683 CE), at an age of somewhere between 17 and 23. Mu'awiya was the son of ...
Ubayd Allah was the son of Ziyad ibn Abihi whose tribal origins were obscure; while his mother was a Persian concubine named Murjanah. [1] Ziyad served as the Umayyad governor of Iraq and the lands east of that province, collectively known as Khurasan, during the reign of Caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680). [2]
Yazid III was the grandson of great Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and his grand mother was Wallada bint al-Abbas ibn al-Jaz al-Absiyya. Yazid was the son of a Persian princess who had been given as a concubine to Caliph al-Walid I. [3] His mother was Shah-i Afrid, a daughter of Peroz. Al-Tabari quotes a couplet of Yazid's on his own ancestry: [4]
Mu'awiya ibn Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (Arabic: مُعَاوِيَة بْنِ يَزِيد بْنِ مُعَاوِيَة, romanized: Muʿāwiya ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya; c. 664 –684), commonly known as Mu'awiya II, was the third Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 683–684.
However, he refused to recognize Mu'awiya's nomination of his son Yazid I as his successor in 676. [10] When Yazid acceded following his father's death in 680, Ibn al-Zubayr again rejected his legitimacy, despite Yazid having the backing of the Arab tribesmen of Syria who formed the core of the Umayyad military. [13]