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29. Caliph Marwãn IBN AL-HAKAM IBN ABI AL-'AS IBN UMAYYA IBN ABD SHAMS 4th Umayyad Caliph [117859] (Al-Hakam²⁸, Abu al-As 1st Umayyad Caliph²⁷, Umayya²⁶, Abd Shams²⁵, Abd Manãf²⁴, Qusayy²³, Kilab²², Murrah²¹, Ka'b²⁰, Lu'ayy¹⁹, Ghalib¹⁸, Fihr¹⁶, Malik¹⁴, Nazar¹², Kinana⁹, Khuzayma⁷, 'Amr⁶, Ilyass⁵, Mudar⁴, Nazar³, Ma'ad², Adnan¹) was born on Mar 28, 623 in at-Ta'if Arabia and died in May 685 in Damascus at age 62.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of this Marwan,
Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya, commonly known as Marwan I (623 or 626 \endash April/May 685), was the fourth Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in 684\endash 685. He founded the Marwanid ruling house of the Umayyad dynasty, which replaced the Sufyanid house after its collapse in the Second Muslim Civil War and remained in power until 750.
During the reign of his cousin Uthman (r. 644\endash 656), Marwan took part in a military campaign against the Byzantines of the Exarchate of Africa (in central North Africa), where he acquired significant war spoils. He also served as Uthman's governor in Fars (southwestern Iran) before becoming the caliph's katib (secretary or scribe). He was wounded fighting the rebel siege of Uthman's house, in which the caliph was slain. In the ensuing civil war between Ali (r. 656\endash 661) and the largely Qurayshite partisans of A'isha, Marwan sided with the latter at the Battle of the Camel. Marwan later served as governor of Medina under his distant kinsman Caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661\endash 680), founder of the Umayyad Caliphate. During the reign of Mu'awiya's son and successor Yazid I (r. 680\endash 683), Marwan organized the defense of the Umayyad realm in the Hejaz (western Arabia) against the local opposition. After Yazid died in November 683, the Mecca-based rebel Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr declared himself caliph and expelled Marwan, who took refuge in Syria, the center of Umayyad rule. With the death of the last Sufyanid caliph Mu'awiya II in 684, Marwan, encouraged by the ex-governor of Iraq Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, volunteered his candidacy for the caliphate during a summit of pro-Umayyad tribes in Jabiya. The tribal nobility, led by Ibn Bahdal of the Banu Kalb, elected Marwan and together they defeated the pro-Zubayrid Qays tribes at the Battle of Marj Rahit in August of that year.

In the months that followed, Marwan reasserted Umayyad rule over Egypt, Palestine, and northern Syria, whose governors had defected to Ibn al-Zubayr's cause, while keeping the Qays in check in the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia). He dispatched an expedition led by Ibn Ziyad to reconquer Zubayrid Iraq, but died while it was underway in the spring of 685. Before his death, Marwan firmly established his sons in positions of power: Abd al-Malik was designated his successor, Abd al-Aziz was made governor of Egypt, and Muhammad oversaw military command in Upper Mesopotamia. Although Marwan was stigmatized as an outlaw and a father of tyrants in later anti-Umayyad tradition, the historian Clifford E. Bosworth asserts that the caliph was a shrewd, capable, and decisive military leader and statesman who laid the foundations of continued Umayyad rule for a further sixty-five years.

Marwãn married Aisha BINT MWAUYIA IBN AL-MUGHIRA [117860].

The child from this marriage was:

+ 30    i. Caliph Abd al-Malik IBN MARWAN 5th Umayyad Caliph [117858] was born in 646 in Medina Rashidun Caliphate Arabia and died on Oct 8, 705 in Damascus Umayyad Caliphate Syria at age 59.