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ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn ʿAbd al-Malik was an Umayyad prince and commander who played a key role in the toppling of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid II, which sparked the Third Muslim Civil War.

Life
Abd al-Aziz was the son of al-Hajjaj, who was one of the sons of the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ((r. 685 – 705)). Both Abd al-Aziz and his father were born to slave concubines, though some sources make Abd al-Aziz's mother Rayta ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Allah, the same mother of the first Abbasid caliph al-Saffah ((r. 750 – 754)). He was married to Umm Salama, a daughter of the Umayyad caliph Hisham and the couple are reported to have undertaken the Hajj in 741 or 742. Until the events of the Third Fitna (744–750), he had been a minor figure.

Abd al-Aziz was the chief commander for his cousin Yazid III in their rebellion against their cousin caliph al-Walid II. Once the rebel princes took control of the capital Damascus, Abd al-Aziz led their troops against al-Walid II, who had taken position at the fort of Bakhra south of Palmyra. During the engagement there, Abd al-Aziz's marital ties to the family of Hisham ''((r. 743 – 744)).