Umm Hakim bint Yahya

Umm Hakim bint Yahya (Arabic: أم حكيم بنت يحيى) was an 8th-century Umayyad nobility and famous principal wife of the tenth Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.

Umm Hakim bint Yahya
أم حكيم بنت يحيى
Zawjat al-khalifa
Consort of the Umayyad caliph
Tenure724 – 742/43
BornSyria/Hejaz, Umayyad Caliphate
DiedDamascus, Umayyad Caliphate
SpouseHisham
Children
Names
Umm Hakim bint Yahya ibn al-Hakam
DynastyUmayyad
FatherYahya ibn al-Hakam
MotherZaynab bint Abd al-Rahman
ReligionIslam

Life

At first, One of Yahya's daughters, Amina, was wed to Abd al-Malik's son, Hisham.[1] however Amina died and Hisham married Yahya other daughter, Umm Hakim.

Umm Hakim was Hisham's favored wife, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather caliph Marwan I (r.684–685),[2] and Zaynab bint Abd al-Rahman, the granddaughter of the Syrian conquest commander al-Harith ibn Hisham of the Banu Makhzum.[3] Umm Hakim, like her mother, was well known for her beauty and love for drink.[4] She gave Hisham five sons,[5] including Sulayman,[6] Maslama,[7] Yazid al-Afqam,[8] and Mu'awiya.[9]

Umm Hakim also lobbied for her son Maslama's succession.[10] during her husband Hisham's reign.

References

  1. Robinson, p. 153.
  2. Kilpatrick 2003, pp. 72, 82.
  3. Ahmed 2010, p. 56.
  4. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 90, notes 455 and 456.
  5. Blankinship 1989, p. 65.
  6. Intagliata 2018, p. 141.
  7. Hillenbrand 1989, p. 90.
  8. Judd 2008, p. 453.
  9. Ahmed 2010, p. 78.
  10. Marsham 2009, p. 131, note 30.

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