Yazid al-Afqam

Yazid was the son of the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743) and his favored wife Umm Hakim, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather Caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685).[1] He was nicknamed "al-Afqam".[2]

He may have led the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 738, though other accounts hold it was his brother Sulayman,[3] and led it again in 741.[2] He was imprisoned by Caliph al-Walid II soon after his accession in late 743.[4] Al-Walid was assassinated in 744 and Yazid was the first to give the oath of allegiance to the usurping caliph Yazid III.[5]

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• Hillenbrand, Carole, ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXVI: The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate: Prelude to Revolution, A.D. 738–744/A.H. 121–126. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-810-2.
• Kilpatrick, Hilary (2003). Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī's Kitāb al-Aghānī. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700717019. OCLC 50810677.