Yazid II
Maslama was the son of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan () and half-brother of the caliphs al-Walid I (), Sulayman (), Yazid II () and Hisham (). Maslama himself was excluded from the line of succession as his mother was a slave concubine. To affirm the reconciliation with Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi, the rebel Qaysi leader of Qarqisiya in the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia), in the summer of 691, Abd al-Malik arranged the marriage of Maslama to Zufar's daughter al-Rabab.