Umm Hakim bint Yahya (Arabic: أم حكيم بنت يحيى) was an 8th-century Umayyad noblewoman and famous principal wife of the tenth Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.
At first, One of Yahya's daughters, Amina, was wed to Abd al-Malik's son, Hisham.
[1] however Amina died and Hisham married Yahya other daughter, Umm Hakim.
Umm Hakim was Hisham's favored wife, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685),[2] and Zaynab bint Abd al-Rahman, the granddaughter of the Syrian conquest commander al-Harith ibn Hisham of the Banu Makhzum.
[4] She gave Hisham five sons,[5] including Sulayman,[6] Maslama,[7] Yazid al-Afqam,[8] and Mu'awiya.