Abd Allah ibn Yazid

Abd Allah ibn Yazid
Consort
  • Atika bint Abd Allah ibn Mu'awiya I
  • Umm Kulthum bint Anbasa ibn Abi Sufyan
  • A'isha bint Sa'id ibn Uthman
  • Umm Uthman bint Sa'id ibn al-As
  • Umm Musa bint Amr al-Ashdaq ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
  • A'isha bint Zabban from Banu Kalb
Children
DynastyUmayyad
FatherYazid I
MotherUmm Kulthum bint Abd Allah ibn Amir
ReligionIslam
OccupationMilitary commander
Military career
AllegianceUmayyad Caliphate
Battles / warsBattle of Maskin (691)
RelationsMu'awiya I (grandfather)
Yazid I (father)
Mu'awiya II (brother)
Abd al-Malik (brother-in-law)
Khalid (brother)
Atikah (sister)

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān (Arabic: عبدالله بن يزيد بن معاوية بن أبي سفيان), commonly known as al-Uswār, was an Umayyad prince from the Sufyanid line of the dynasty. He was the son of Caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683). After the death of his brother, Caliph Mu'awiya II, in 684, he and his brother, Khalid ibn Yazid, were deemed too young to succeed by the pro-Umayyad tribes of Syria, and Umayyad rule was vested in the line of a distant kinsman, Marwan I (r. 684–685). Abd Allah was a famed archer and horseman and commanded part of the army which took over Iraq from anti-Umayyad forces during the Second Fitna in 691.

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