Aban ibn Marwan

Abū ʿUthmān Abān ibn Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam (Arabic: أبو عثمان أبان بن مروان بن الحكم) was an Umayyad prince and governor.

Aban ibn Marwan أبان بن مروان
Governor of Palestine
In office 685 – 690s
Monarch	Abd al-Malik
Personal details
Spouse	Zaynab bint Abd al-Rahman
Relations	Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As (grandfather) Uthman (grand father)
Parents	Marwan I (father) Umm Aban al-Kubra (mother)
Occupation	Governor of Palestine and/or the Balqa

Life

Aban was the son of the Umayyad caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685) and Umm Aban al-Kubra, a daughter of the third caliph, Uthman (r. 644–656).^[1] Aban's half-brother, Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705), appointed him, for an undetermined period, governor of Palestine and the Balqa subdistrict of Damascus.^[2][3] According to the historian Moshe Gil, Aban was later made governor of Jordan.^[4] Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, one of the most powerful figures in the Umayyad Caliphate as viceroy of Iraq and the eastern provinces, started his career in the shurta (security forces) of Aban.^[3] Aban was married to Zaynab bint Abd al-Rahman, a granddaughter of the commander al-Harith ibn Hisham of the Banu Makhzum clan.^[5] She gave birth to Aban's children, but they are not named in the sources.^[5]