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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. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Yazid grew up with his maternal Kalbite kin, [ 6 ] 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,
A Christian like most of his tribesmen at the time, Bahdal secured a prominent role for his family and the Banu Kalb by marrying off his daughter Maysun to the future caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), while the latter was governor of Syria between 639 and 661. Maysun became mother to Mu'awiya's son and successor, Yazid I (r. 680–683).
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 ...
Yazid's mother was a daughter of an Azdite, Sa'id (or Yazid) ibn Qabisa ibn Sarraq. [5] Al-Muhallab participated in the early Muslim conquests in Iran during the reigns of caliphs Umar (r. 634–644) and Uthman (r. 644–656) and in Sijistan under the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680).
Some western scholars derive the name from the Umayyad Caliph Yazid ibn Muawiyah (Yazid I). [50] However, all Yazidis reject any relationship between their name and the caliph. [51] The word Yazidi means 'the servant of the creator'. [52] Although Yazidism was not named after Yazid ibn Muawiyah, the caliph was revered in Yazidism.
Ruqayya bint al-Ḥusayn (Arabic: رُقَيَّة بِنْت ٱلْحُسَيْن) is said to have been a daughter of Husayn ibn Ali, the third imam in Twelver Shia.Husayn and a small group of his supporters were massacred in the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE on the order of the Umayyad caliph Yazid (r.
Atika was the daughter of second Umayyad caliph Yazid.She was the sister of third Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya II.Before Yazid I died, he had the bay'ah made to his son. Mu'awiya II succeeded his father in Damascus in 64 AH (November 683 CE), at an age of somewhere between 17.