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268: 233:. The caliph remained wary of al-Ashdaq's ambitions to the caliphate, particularly due to his popularity among the Syrian Arab nobility and his close kinship to Marwan, who was his maternal uncle and paternal relative as well. Marwan resolved to avoid the potential leadership bids of al-Ashdaq and Khalid by having his sons 258:
in 689, al-Ashdaq took advantage of his absence to launch a revolt, seize the city and declare his right as sovereign. This compelled Abd al-Malik to abandon his campaign and address al-Ashdaq's rebellion. In the ensuing standoff in Damascus between their supporters, Abd al-Malik offered al-Ashdaq
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in 682, al-Ashdaq was ordered by Yazid to send an army against the Zubayrids in the city. Al-Ashdaq appointed Ibn al-Zubayr's brother, Amr, to lead the expedition, but the force was defeated and Amr was executed by Ibn al-Zubayr. Toward the end of 683, al-Ashdaq was dismissed. Yazid died and was
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Abd al-Malik succeeded his father in late 685 but remained suspicious of al-Ashdaq. The latter did not relinquish his claims and viewed Abd al-Malik's accession as a violation of the arrangements reached in Jabiya. When the caliph left Damascus on a military campaign against Zubayrid-held
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From his wife Sawda bint al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, the sister of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, al-Ashdaq had his sons Abd al-Malik and Abd al-Aziz and daughter Ramla. He was also married to A'isha bint Muti, the sister of
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tribes of Syria. Al-Ashdaq took part in Marwan's expedition to wrest control of Egypt from its Zubayrid governor in 685. After the Umayyad victory, al-Ashdaq proclaimed Marwan's sovereignty from the pulpit of the
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tribe, were later reconciled with Abd al-Malik after the latter's victory over the Zubayrids in 692. Sa'id, who had participated in his father's revolt, subsequently migrated to Medina, then to
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amnesty in return for his surrender, to which al-Ashdaq obliged. Abd al-Malik remained distrustful of al-Ashdaq and had him summoned to his palace in Damascus, where he executed him in 689/90.
800: 181:. The latter was ill and died a few months later, causing a leadership crisis in the Umayyad Caliphate, during which most of its provinces recognized Ibn al-Zubayr as caliph. 142:. He was nicknamed "al-Ashdaq" (the Widemouthed). When Sa'id died in 679, al-Ashdaq became the leader of this branch of the Umayyad clan. At the end of the reign of Caliph 321:
clan of Quraysh, who had his sons Musa and Imran. From his Kalbite wife Na'ila bint al-Furays he had a daughter, Umm Musa. The latter was married to a son of Yazid I,
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in 744. Isma'il, who also participated in his father's rebellion, lived in ascetic seclusion near Medina into the beginning of the
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Al-Ashdaq's sons Umayya, Sa'id, Isma'il and Muhammad, all born to al-Ashdaq's wife Umm Habib bint Hurayth of the
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would succeed Marwan, followed by al-Ashdaq. The latter commanded the right wing of Marwan's army during the
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later that year, in which the Umayyads scored a resounding victory over the pro-Zubayrid
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and Umm al-Banin bint al-Hakam, the sister of another Umayyad statesman,
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and al-Ashdaq from the line of succession in favor of his own sons
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summit of 684, it was stipulated that Yazid's then-young son
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to conquer Syria in 684 and 685 during the reign of Caliph
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Index

Amr al-Ashdaq
Arabic
romanized
Arabic
Umayyad dynasty
caliphal
Medina
Yazid I
Zubayrids
Marwan I
Khalid
Abd al-Malik
Abd al-Aziz
Umayyad
Sa'id ibn al-As
Marwan ibn al-Hakam
Mu'awiya I
Mecca
Medina
Yazid I
Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
Mu'awiya II
Arab
Syria
Banu Kalb
Jabiya
Khalid
Battle of Marj Rahit
Qaysi
mosque

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