Abū ʿAwn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Yazīd al-Khurasānī (Arabic: أبو عون عبدالملك بن يزيد الخراساني; fl.
[4] When the Abbasid Revolution broke out in June 747, he was named as the commander of a unit recruited from Jurjan, and was sent to suppress the Kharijites in the region, a task which he carried out with success.
Nevertheless, he decided to attack and on 10 August 749 his army routed the forces of Uthman (who according to some accounts fell in the battle) and captured the district of Shahrazur.
Salih and Abu Awn invaded the country, and in August 750 the last Umayyad resistance was crushed at Busir, with Marwan II and many of his followers being killed.
[1][6] When Ustadh Sis, hard-pressed by the armies of Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi, decided to surrender, he chose to submit himself and his followers to the arbitration of Abu Awn (whom some sources suggest he personally knew, perhaps from the time of the Abbasid Revolution).