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 382 Yezīd II. died at the age of forty, having reigned a little over four years;—an inglorious reign, which failed to stay, if it did not actually hasten, the decadence of the Umeiyad house. Ibn aṭ-Ṭiḳṭaḳa calls him the Prodigal Son of the Umeiyads. He was succeeded by his brother Hishām, another son of ʿAbd al-Melik.