He died in Damascus at the age of sixty-one—others say sixty-three—years.

Abū Maʿshar and a number of scholars maintained that he was eighty-one when he passed away.

Khalīfah related: al-Walīd ibn Hishām told me, from his father, from his grandfather, that Marwān died in Damascus on the third day of Ramadan in the year 65 AH, at the age of sixty-three. His son ʿAbd al-Malik offered the funeral prayer over him. His reign lasted nine months and eighteen days; others say ten months.

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā and others said: he was short, ruddy-faced, ʾawqaṣ (1), thin-necked, and large of head and beard. He was nicknamed “Khayṭ Bāṭil” (“a useless thread”).

The ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir (2) reported that Saʿīd ibn Kathīr ibn ʿUfayr stated Marwān died, on his return from Egypt, at al-Ṣinnabra (3); some say at Ludd (4).

It has also been said that he died in Damascus and was buried between Bāb al-Jābiyah and Bāb al-Ṣaghīr.

[His scribe was ʿUbayd ibn Aws; his chamberlain was al-Minhāl, his freedman; his judge was Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī; and his chief of police was Yaḥyā ibn Qays al-Ghassānī. Among his sons were ʿAbd al-Malik, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and Muʿāwiyah, along with others. He also had several daughters from various mothers.] (5)