Marwan ibn al-Hakam

Marwan bin Al-Hakam Marwan bin Al-Hakam bin Abi Al-Aas Ibn Umayyah bin Abd Shams bin Abd Manaf Al-Qurashi Al-Umayyad, nicknamed Abu Abd Al-Malik, by his son Abd Al-Malik. He is the cousin of Othman bin Affan bin Abi Al-Aas. He was born during the reign of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Another report states: He was born in the year two of the Hijra. Malik said: He was born on a Sunday. Some reports state: He was born on the day of the Trench. According to another account, He was born in Mecca. Another report states: In Taif. the Prophet ﷺ did not see; Because he went out to Taif as an irrational child when the Prophet ﷺ denied his father ruling, as we mentioned in his father's biography. He was with his father in Taif until Uthman was appointed successor. He sent them back. Uthman asked Marwan to write and joined him, and Ali looked at him one day and said: Woe to you, and woe to the nation of Muhammad from you and from your children.

And Marwan was told: "A false thread." On the day of the abode he was struck on the back of his head, and one of his two cloaks was cut off, and after that he lived shorter, and the shorter one was the one whose neck was shortened. And when Marwan was pledged to the caliphate. In the Levant, his brother Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hakam, who was a licentious man with beautiful hair, said that he did not agree with Marwan's opinion: By Allah, I do not know. I am asking... a haircut that has been cut off from the back of the neck: How is it done? He wills and He wills. Some reports state: Abd al-Rahman only said this when Muawiyah used Marwan to control Medina. Muawiyah used him to control Medina, Mecca, and Taif. Then he removed him from Medina in the year forty-eight, and appointed Saeed bin Abi Al-Aas over it. He remained its governor until the year fifty-four.

Then he removed him and appointed Al-Walid bin Utbah bin Abi Sufyan. He remained in charge until Muawiyah died. When Muawiyah bin Yazid bin Muawiyah died, without entrusting anyone with anyone, some people in the Levant pledged allegiance to Marwan bin Al-Hakam.