In that same year Yazid ibn Shajarah was killed at sea.
[Others maintained that the naval and Byzantine expedition was actually led by Junadah ibn Abi Umayyah, while yet another report says that the one who wintered in Byzantine territory was ʿAmr ibn Yazid al-Juhani. Abu Maʿshar and al-Waqidi said] (1): During that year al-Walid ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abi Sufyan led the people in the pilgrimage.

That year Muʿawiyah appointed ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUthman ibn Rabiʿah al-Thaqafi—better known as Ibn Umm al-Hakam—governor of Kufa, [Umm al-Hakam being Muʿawiyah’s sister], and dismissed al-Dahhak ibn Qays. Ibn Umm al-Hakam (2) set Zāʾidah ibn Qudāmah over the city’s police. During his tenure the khawārij rose in revolt; their leader on that occasion was Hayān ibn Ẓabyan al-Sulami. He dispatched a force against them and they were all killed.

Ibn Umm al-Hakam then behaved badly toward the people of Kufa, so they expelled him from their midst. He returned to his uncle Muʿawiyah and told him what had happened. Muʿawiyah said, “I shall give you a province better than that,” and named him governor of Egypt. When he set out for it, Muʿawiyah ibn Hudayj (3) met him two stages outside Egypt and said, “Go back to your uncle Muʿawiyah. By my life, we will not let you enter Egypt only to treat us as you treated our brothers in Kufa.” Ibn Umm al-Hakam turned back, and Muʿawiyah ibn Hudayj accompanied him to Damascus as an envoy.

When they entered upon the Caliph they found his sister Umm al-Hakam present—the mother of the very ʿAbd al-Rahman who had been driven out of Kufa and Egypt. As soon as Muʿawiyah saw him he exclaimed, “Well done, well done! This is Muʿawiyah ibn Hudayj.” Umm al-Hakam said, “No welcome to him; hearing about al-Muʿaydi is better than seeing him” (4).

Muʿawiyah ibn Hudayj replied, “Easy there, Umm al-Hakam. By Allah, you married yet were not ennobled, and you gave birth yet produced nothing worthy. You wanted your profligate son to rule over us and do with us as he did with our brothers in Kufa. Allah would never grant him that. Had he tried, we would have beaten him until his head was forced low—even if the one sitting here,” meaning Muʿawiyah, “disapproved.” Muʿawiyah then turned to her and said, “Enough.”

A remarkable anecdote is recorded by Ibn al-Jawzi in al-Muntazam with his chain of transmission. It concerns a young man from Banu ʿUdhrah who had an encounter with Ibn Umm al-Hakam (5) when the latter was governor of Kufa that year. Its essence is as follows: One day, while Muʿawiyah was seated at the ceremonial banquet (6), a youth from Banu ʿUdhrah stood before him and recited poetry expressing longing for his wife Suʿad. Muʿawiyah drew him close and asked him to relate his story. He said, “Commander of the Believers! I was married to my cousin, and I owned camels and sheep…"