Abd al-Wahid ibn Sulayman

Abd al-Wahid ibn Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik was an Umayyad prince and the governor of Mecca and Medina in 747–748 during the reign of Caliph Marwan II. He fled the post in 747/48 after failing to prevent the takeover of the two Islamic holy cities by the Kharijites during the Ibadi revolt. He was later executed by the Abbasids after their toppling of the Umayyad dynasty. Early life Abd al-Wahid was a son of Caliph Sulayman and a grandson of Caliph Abd al-Malik. His mother, Umm Amr, a daughter of Abd Allah ibn Khalid ibn Asid, was one of the Umayyad wives of Sulayman. According to a contemporary poem preserved in the 10th-century Kitab al-aghani (Book of Songs), Abd al-Wahid rewarded the Taghlibite poet al-Qutami (d. 747) with fifty camels loaded with wheat, dates and clothing for a panegyric praising the prince during the rule of Caliph Umar II; Abd al-Wahid made the gift to al-Qutami shortly after hearing that Umar had refused to gift him the thirty camels al-Qutami had requested due to the caliph's apparent disdain for poetry. Governorship of Mecca and Medina