he then advanced between two lines of mounted troops, fully armed, from the fortress gate to the prayer-ground.

Abū ʿUthmān al-Laythī relates that Yazīd al-Nāqiṣ once declared:
“O sons of Umayyah, keep away from singing, for it diminishes modesty, stirs up lust, undermines manliness, and serves the same purpose as wine. Yet if you simply must engage in it, keep it out of the women’s hearing, for singing is a caller to fornication.”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam said: “I heard al-Shāfiʿī remark, ‘When Yazīd ibn al-Walīd assumed power he summoned the people to the Qadarite doctrine and forced it upon them, favouring Ghaylān the Qadarite—or, he added, the followers of Ghaylān.’”

The author comments: “Ghaylān had been crucified by Hishām some years earlier.”

Yazīd al-Nāqiṣ died on the seventh of Dhū al-Ḥijjah in the year 126 AH; his rule lasted six months, and then he passed away. He was a young man, brown-skinned, slender, and handsome of face. Some say he died of the plague. After him allegiance was given to his brother Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd, and Yazīd was buried at Bāb al-Ṣaghīr—may Allah pardon him.

Ibn al-Fūṭī states in Muʿjam al-Alqāb that his honorific was “al-Shākir li-llāh” (the one grateful to Allah), that he was born in the year 80 AH, and that he died in Damascus, on the Day of Sacrifice, of plague. The last words he uttered were: “Alas for my grief! Alas for my sorrow!” He was then buried at Bāb al-Farādīs. He was of medium stature, brown-complexioned, with light side-whiskers, eloquent, and exceedingly proud of himself. It is said that Marwān al-Ḥimār later exhumed him and crucified him.

Among the Muʿtazilah he is considered superior to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz on account of his theological stance.

Yazīd’s children were: Khālid, al-Walīd, ʿAbd Allāh, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Aṣbagh, Abū Bakr, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, and ʿAlī.

171 – Ibrāhīm ibn al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qurashī al-Umayyad
The Caliph, Abū Isḥāq al-Qurashī al-Umayyad.