Yazid al-Afqam

Yazīd ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (Arabic: يزيد بن هشام بن عبد الملك), commonly known as al-Afqam (fl. 738 – c. 744), was an Umayyad prince who played military and political roles during the reign of his father, Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, and during the reigns of his own cousins, caliphs al-Walid II and Yazid III.

Yazid al-Afqam يزيد الأفقم
Died	c. 744/46
Names Yazid ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik al-Afqam
House	Marwanid
Dynasty	Umayyad
Father	Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
Mother	Umm Hakim bint Yahya
Religion	Islam
Occupation	Umayyad courtier, politician and Military leader
Military career
Allegiance	Umayyad Caliphate
Rank	Commander
Battles / wars	Arab–Byzantine wars
Relations	Al-Walid II (cousin) Yazid III (cousin) Maslama (brother) Mu'awiya (brother) Sulayman (brother)

Life

Yazid was the son of the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 724–743) and his favored wife Umm Hakim, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather Caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685).^[1] He was nicknamed "al-Afqam".^[2]

He may have led the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in 738, though other accounts hold it was his brother Sulayman,^[3] and led it again in 741.^[2] He was imprisoned by Caliph al-Walid II soon after his accession in late 743.^[4] Al-Walid was assassinated in 744 and Yazid was the first to give the oath of allegiance to the usurping caliph Yazid III.^[5]