مروان بن الحكم. فصل: ذكر موت مروان بن الحكم وولاية ابنه عبد الملك

He was wounded fighting the , in which the caliph was slain	In August, Marwan's forces routed the Qays and killed al-Dahhak at the
1176 are indicative of Marwan's piety, such as the 9th-century historian 's assertion that Marwan was among the best readers of the Qur'an and Marwan's own claim to have recited the Qur'an for over forty years before the Battle of Marj Rahit	According to Bosworth, Mu'awiya may have been suspicious of the ambitions of Marwan and the line of the Banu Umayya in general, which was significantly more numerous than the Abu Sufyan Sufyanid line to which Mu'awiya belonged

The modern historian notes that while Caetani's "theory is attractive", there is no information in the traditional sources to confirm it and should Marwan have been A'isha's war adviser "he operated so discreetly that the sources hardly speak of his actions.

مروان بن محمد: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume II: C—G
الموقف من مروان بن الحكم والحجاج بن يوسف: Medina had lost its status as the political center of the Caliphate in the aftermath of Uthman's assassination, and under Mu'awiya the capital shifted to Damascus
مروان بن حکم: Marwan served as Mu'awiya's governor in eastern Arabia before serving two stints as governor of Medina in 661—668 and 674—677

According to tradition, he was saved by the intervention of his wet nurse, Fatima bint Aws, and was transported to the safety of her home by his freedman or client ,	In the view of Madelung, Marwan's path to the caliphate was "truly high politics", the culmination of intrigues dating from his early career
The Quraysh converted to en masse in c	Husayn ibn Numayr had attempted to reach a similar arrangement with Ibn al-Zubayr, who publicly rejected the terms

Meanwhile, Marwan sent his son Muhammad to check the Qaysi tribes in the middle Euphrates region.

مروان بن الحكم، وجعلُ خطبة العيد قبل الصلاة … !!: London and New York: Routledge
مروان بن الحكم: She was mother to six of his sons, , Uthman, , Ayyub, Dawud and Abd Allah, though the last of them died a child
مدى ثبوت نفي النبي للحكم بن أبي العاص: Husayn answered al-Walid's summons, but withheld his recognition of Yazid, offering instead to make the pledge in public

, brother of Marwan I• According to the traditional Muslim reports, many of Uthman's erstwhile backers among the Quraysh gradually withdrew their support as a result of Marwan's pervasive influence, which they blamed for the caliph's controversial decisions	According to the historian , in this capacity Marwan "doubtless helped" in the revision "of what became the of the " in Uthman's reign
" During his first term, Marwan acquired from Mu'awiya a large estate in the oasis in northwestern Arabia, which he then bestowed on his sons Abd al-Malik and Abd al-Aziz	The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume X: T—U

Marwan recommended a violent response against them.

مروان بن الحكم مؤسس الدولة الاموية الثانية: In Savant, Sarah Bowen; de Felipe, Helena eds
الموقف من مروان بن الحكم والحجاج بن يوسف: " According to one version in the Islamic tradition, Marwan used the occasion of the battle to kill one of A'isha's partisans, a prominent companion of Muhammad, , whom he held especially responsible for instigating Uthman's death
البداية والنهاية/الجزء الثامن/ترجمة مروان بن الحكم: Marwan had ten brothers and was the paternal uncle of ten nephews