Abd Allah ibn Yazid

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.

[2] After the deaths of Yazid and his eldest son and successor, Mu'awiya II, in 683 and 684, Umayyad rule collapsed across the Caliphate.

The chief of the Kalb, Ibn Bahdal, was a cousin of Yazid, and he nominated Khalid and Abd Allah as his candidates for the caliphal office.

"[4] Al-Tabari quoted an unnamed poet as saying of Abd Allah: The people claim that the best of all Quraysh [the tribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and all the caliphs] when they are mentioned is al-Uswār.

[8] He was married to another Sufyanid kinswoman, Umm Kulthum, the daughter of Mu'awiya I's brother Anbasa ibn Abi Sufyan.

[10] Abd Allah's son Ziyad (Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani) was a Damascus-based commander in the service of Hisham's successor al-Walid II and later proclaimed himself caliph and led a rebellion in Syria against the Abbasids.