361:(non-Arab clients or freedmen). Al-Walid informed Husayn of Mu'awiya's death and demanded the oath of allegiance to Yazid. Husayn suggested his recognition of Yazid, to be legitimate, should be made in public, to which al-Walid agreed. Instead, al-Husayn managed to delay his public recognition for two days, allowing him to escape to Mecca. Marwan ibn al-Hakam pressed al-Walid to respond with force, but al-Walid was not willing to take violent measures against Husayn as he was a grandson of the Islamic prophet
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385:, in an apparent ploy, Ibn al-Zubayr subsequently sent a letter to Yazid in which he referred to al-Walid as a "stupid man who does not direct us to a straightforward situation" and suggested he should appoint a more amiable governor that Ibn al-Zubayr would in turn cooperate with. Yazid agreed and appointed al-Walid's cousin
355:, all of whom had earlier refused to recognize Mu'awiya's nomination of Yazid. Accordingly, al-Walid invited Husayn and Ibn al-Zubayr to the governor's palace in Medina, which aroused both of their suspicions; Ibn al-Zubayr fled to Mecca, while Husayn agreed to meet al-Walid accompanied by his retinue of clansmen and
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tribe, sent a letter condemning Ibn al-Zubayr and proclaiming support for continued
Umayyad rule with one of his tribesmen, a certain Naghida or Na'isa, for al-Dahhak to read during the Friday prayers. When al-Dahhak refused to publicly read the letter, Naghida read it aloud, for which he was
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Al-Walid was reappointed governor of Medina at the beginning of the Hajj on 21 August 681. He led the Hajj that year and the next year, in August 682. Al-Walid was unsuccessful in his efforts to subdue Ibn al-Zubayr, who had launched a revolt against the
Umayyads from his base in Mecca. While
328:(died 823), Mu'awiya appointed al-Walid governor of Medina in September/October 677, while according to another 8th-century historian Abu Mash'ar, he was appointed in August/September 678. He replaced his Umayyad cousin,
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400:, in 683 and 684 left a leadership void in Syria and precipitated the collapse of Umayyad authority throughout the caliphate. Al-Walid had led the funeral prayers for Mu'awiya II. The Umayyads' governor in
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and Abd Allah and their maternal kinsmen from the Banu Kalb. The eldest surviving
Sufyanid, al-Walid may have intended to claim the mantle of succession, but died, possibly of plague, in 684.
396:, where Mecca and Medina are located, were expelled and relocated to Syria as the rebellion against Umayyad rule escalated. The successive deaths of Yazid and his son and successor, Caliph
408:, secretly supported Ibn al-Zubayr's suzerainty, but withheld openly recognizing him due to the strong presence of the Umayyads and their supporters in the city and vicinity of
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336:(died 892), al-Walid had a reputation for drinking and was involved in intra-dynastic disputes over power in the caliphate from the beginning of his career.
343:, as successor in a move unprecedented in Islamic history. When Yazid acceded in 680, he charged al-Walid with securing the oaths of allegiance to him from
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189:Utba ibn Abi Sufyan
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