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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,
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.
Yazid was born in Damascus, the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate, c. 690/91. [1] He was the son of Caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705) and his influential wife Atika, the daughter of Yazid II's namesake, Caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683). [1] Sources occasionally refer to him as 'Ibn Atika'. [2]
Sa'id was a cousin of Caliph Yazid I, the latter's mother Maysun being the sister of Sa'id's father Malik. They belonged to the influential house of Bahdal ibn Unayf , the chief of the Banu Kalb tribe in Syria. [ 3 ]
The names of two of Yazid's known wives are: Umm Khalid Fakhita bint Abi Hisham (and Umm Kulthum, a daughter of the veteran commander and statesman Abd Allah ibn Amir). [1] [2] Fakhita and Umm Kulthum both hailed from the Abd Shams, the parent clan of the Umayyads. [3] Fakhitah was the mother of Yazid's younger son Khalid. Her husband came to ...
She is often confused with Umm Hashim Fakhitah bint Abi Hisham, mother of Mu'awiya's half-brother Khalid ibn Yazid. [1] His father, Yazid died on 11 November 683 in the central Syrian desert town of Huwwarin, his favourite residence, aged between 35 and 43, and was buried there. [2]
Yazid was the member of the influential Umayyad dynasty. His father, al-Walid was survived by several sons: al-Ya'qubi names sixteen, [1] while historian al-Tabari (d. 923) names nineteen. [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.