Yazid ibn al - Muhallab Yazid ibn al - Muhallab ( 672 – 720 ) was a provincial governor in the time of the Umayyad dynasty and the progenitor of the Muhallabid family that became important in early Abbasid times . In A . H . 78 ( 697 - 698 CE ) al - Hajjaj ibn Yusuf , the Caliphate ' s viceroy of the eastern provinces , appointed Yazid ' s father al - Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah as governor of Khurasan . In A . H . 82 ( 701 - 702 ) al - Muhallab ' s son Mughirah died and al - Muhallab sent Yazid to replace him . Soon afterwards al - Muhallab died and al - Hajjaj appointed Yazid governor of Khorasan . There Yazid confronted external and internal enemies , including some rebels entering his province who were supporters of Abd al - Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al - Ash ' ath . Yazid defeated them . Yazid seized Nizak ' s fortress and made peace with him . In A . H . 85 ( 704 - 705 ) al - Hajjaj replaced Yazid naming his younger brother al - Mufaddal governor of Khurasan . Various reasons are suggested , including that al - Hajjaj encountered a prophecy that his successor would be named Yazid and al - Hajjaj considered this Yazid the only one threatening enough to worry about . Al - Hajjaj imprisoned and tortured Yazid . In A . H . 90 ( 708 - 709 ) Yazid disguised escaped and made his way to Palestine where he was granted refuge by Suleiman ibn Abd al - Malik . Al - Hajjaj pressed Caliph al - Walid I who commanded his brother to send him Yazid in chains . Suleiman had his own son chained to Yazid approach the caliph and speak favouring Yazid ' s safety . Al - Walid accepted this and told al - Hajjaj to desist . Yazid returned to Suleiman and the two were very close to each other . When Suleiman came to the throne in A . H . 96 ( 715 ) , he appointed Yazid to govern Iraq . The next year Suleiman appointed Yazid governor of Khurasan . Yazid fought in Jurjan and Tabaristan , personally engaging in combat . In A . H . 99 ( 717 - 718 ) the new caliph Umar ibn Abd al - Aziz dismissed Yazid due to his tortures against people of conquered territories , especially Turks and Sogd s . Yazid was captured on his way to Basra and brought before Umar who intensely disliked him . Umar imprisoned Yazid . In A . H . 101 ( 719 - 720 ) when Umar fell ill , Yazid escaped . Umar died . Yazid approached Basra . Many joined him . He refused to swear allegiance to the new caliph , Yazid II . He attacked those holding his brothers , defeated them and freed his brothers . His son Khalid was arrested in Kufah and sent to Damascus where he remained in prison until he died . Yazid was advised to head east , but he declined to follow this advice . In A . H . 102 ( 720 - 721 ) Maslamah ibn Abd al - Malik and al - Abbas ibn al - Walid led forces against him . On August 25 , Maslamah ' s troops advanced to battle , frightening some of Yazid ' s men who fled . Yazid had these beheaded . He then rode directly at Maslamah . Maslamah ' s cavalry intercepted him and cut him down . Fighting continued . In Wasit , Yazid ' s son Mu ' awiyah on news of his father ' s death executed some prisoners , including Adi ibn Artat , the Basran governor who had sent Yazid to Umar in A . H . 99 . Mu ' awiyah and other surviving members of the Yazid ' s family sailed to Bahrayn , then near Kirman . They advanced to Qandabil where they were denied entrance . There was a glorious fight in which all but two died , those two making their way to Zabulistan . Some captured boys were sent to Yazid II who beheaded them .