The tribal nobility, led by of the , elected Marwan and together they defeated the pro-Zubayrid tribes at the in August of that year | In the Islamic traditional anecdotes relating Yazid's response, Marwan warns Ibn al-Zubayr not to submit to the caliph; Wellhausen considers these variable traditions to be unreliable |
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Marwan's wife Layla bint Zabban ibn al-Asbagh of the tribe bore him and daughter Umm Uthman, who was married to Caliph Uthman's son al-Walid; al-Walid was also married at one point to Marwan's daughter Umm Amr | According to the historian , in this capacity Marwan "doubtless helped" in the revision "of what became the of the " in Uthman's reign |
Although it is widely reported in the traditional Muslim sources that Marwan was killed in his sleep by Umm Hashim Fakhita in retaliation for a serious verbal insult to her honor by the caliph, most western historians dismiss the story | Marwan, the leader of the Umayyad clan in the Hejaz, advised al-Walid ibn Utba, then governor of Medina, to coerce Husayn and Ibn al-Zubayr, both of whom he considered especially dangerous to Umayyad rule, to accept the caliph's sovereignty |
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The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume VI: Mahk—Mid | Despite its victory over the Medinese, Yazid's army retreated to Syria in the wake of the caliph's death in November |
The organizer of the Jabiya summit, , the chieftain of the powerful Banu Kalb tribe and maternal cousin of Yazid, supported Khalid's nomination.
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