Sa'id ibn Hisham

Saʿīd ibn Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik (d. 750) was an Umayyad prince and commander who participated in the Arab–Byzantine wars and the Third Muslim Civil War, often in association with his brother, Sulayman ibn Hisham. For revolting against Caliph Marwan II, he was imprisoned in 746, and he died trying to escape. Life Sa'id was a son the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. His mother was either Hisham's wife Umm Uthman bint Sa'id ibn Khalid, who was a great-granddaughter of Caliph Uthman, or a slave concubine. Sa'id may have been a pupil of the Muslim jurist Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri like his brothers Maslama and Sulayman. Regardless, Sa'id had a reputation as "a sinner", according to the historian Steven Judd, often exposing himself indecently to the women of Homs, where he resided. His actions in that regard led to his imprisonment by his father, the caliph, for an undetermined time. Like several of his brothers he was a commander in the frontier wars against the Byzantine Empire. He was one of the leaders of the campaign of 729, during which he raided as far as Caesarea in Cappadocia. He probably did not capture the major city, and it is not clear the extent of destruction wrought upon it. His brother Mu'awiya, meanwhile, led the other part of that year's campaign. Sa'id was a close ally of his brother Sulayman in the events following Hisham's death in 743 and the succession of their cousin al-Walid II. The latter and many of Hisham's sons, including Sa'id, long had hostile relations. Upon his accession, al-Walid had Sa'id and Sulayman imprisoned. Like his brothers, Sa'id was a supporter of Yazid III, who conspired against and succeeded al-Walid after the latter's assassination in 744.