الوليد بن يزيد بن عبدالملك

(1) AL WALiD-B-YAZiD-B-A'BDI'L MALIK

(2) 125-126 A.H.

عَلى المَعَاصِيْ دَائِمَاً مُعْتَكِفُ (3)
وَأَحْضَرُوْا مِنْ بَعْدِ تِلْكَ كَفَنَهْ

ثمَّ قَضَى إِذْ جَاءَ فِيْهَا خُسْرُهُ

ثمَّ الوَلِيْدُ المَاجِنُ المُنْحَـرِفُ
لِقِلَّةِ التَّوْفِيْقِ قَدْ دَامَ سَنَهْ(4)

ثِنْتَانِ ثمَّ أَرْبَعُونَ عُمْرُهُ(5)

ALWalid Bin Yazid Dirham

Year of mint: 126 A.H | |Wt:2.83 gm | Diameter : 24 ml place of mint: Wast

Obverse.

engraved : None has the right to be worshipped except Allah and Muhammad his messenger.

Footnote: By the name of Allah, this Dinar was mint in Africa the year 126 A.H

Reverse.

Engraved: "He is Allah, (the) One. "Allah-us-Samad (The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks). "He begets not, nor was He begotten.

(Muhammad) it the Messenger Who was sent with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), that He may make it (Islam) superior over all religions, that though the unbelievers be averse.

(1) He is Al-Walid ibn Yazid ibn Abdul Malik bin Marwan I Ibn Abi al-Aas bin Umayya bin Shams.

(2) He assumed the government on the death of Hisham in Rabii' u'l Akhir in the year 125.a.h ( ALBedaia w ALNehaia 10/2 )(The Completed History 4/467).

(3) Ibn Al-Kathir said: He was a libertine and a wine-drinker and a breaker of the divine commands. He was notorious for indulgence in sin, immortality, debauchery, profligacy and he sought to seduce people into immorality." (ALbedaiab W ALnehaia 10/6). For Ibn Al-Athir the same saying. (The Completed History 4/467-471).

(4) The period of his regime lasted for a year , six months and said three months (ALbedaiah W ALnehaia 10/11) others said other than that (The Completed History 4/485).

(5) His age when he died was forty two years old and said before that (The Completed History 4/485). (ALbedaiab W ALnehaia