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
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

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Marwan's umm walad was also named Zaynab and gave birth to his son.

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The old elites in Medina, including most of the Umayyad family, resented their loss of power to Mu'awiya; in the summation of the historian , "of what consequence was Marwan, formerly the all-powerful imperial chancellor of Uthman, now as Emir of Medina! Marwan's first dismissal from the governorship caused him to travel to Mu'awiya's court for an explanation from the caliph, who listed three reasons: Marwan's refusal to confiscate for Mu'awiya the properties of their relative after the latter's dismissal from the governorship of Basra; Marwan's criticism of the caliph's adoption of the fatherless , Ibn Amir's successor in Basra, as the son of his father , which the Umayyad family disputed; and Marwan's refusal to assist the caliph's daughter Ramla in a domestic dispute with her husband,
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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فصل: ذكر موت مروان بن الحكم وولاية ابنه عبد الملك

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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Role in the First Fitna [ ] In the ensuing hostilities between Ali and the largely Qurayshi partisans of A'isha, Marwan sided with the latter
البداية والنهاية/الجزء الثامن/ترجمة مروان بن الحكم
"The Murder of the Caliph 'Uthman"
مروان بن الحكم، وجعلُ خطبة العيد قبل الصلاة … !!
Caliph 's nomination of his own son as his successor had been an unprecedented act in Islamic politics, marking a shift to hereditary rule from the earlier caliphs' elective or consultative form of succession