Editing Marwan II (section)

==Birth and background==
Marwan ibn Muhammad was a member of the Marwanid household of the [[Umayyad Caliphate]]. His grandmother was named Zaynab. Marwan's father was [[Muhammad ibn Marwan]], who was the son of the fourth Umayyad Caliph [[Marwan I]] ({{reign|684|685}}), and hence half-brother to fifth Umayyad Caliph [[Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan]] ({{reign|685|705}}).<ref name="EI2">Zetterstéen (1993), p. 408</ref>{{incomplete short citation|date=December 2021}}<ref>Donner (2014), p. 110</ref>{{incomplete short citation|date=December 2021}}

His mother was a woman who's mostly unnamed, however sometimes is called Rayya or Tarubah, and is likely of non-Arab origin (a [[Kurds|Kurd]] according to most accounts). Some have referenced that his mother was already pregnant with Marwan before his legal father, Muhammad, bed her, thus making the child not his.<ref>Women and the State in Early Islam (1942), p. 361</ref> A couple sources report that Muhammad had taken her captive during the suppression of [[Second Fitna|Ibn al-Zubayr's revolt]], prior to her capture she was either the slave of [[Ibn al-Zubayr]] or of his cook, Zumri.<ref>Hawting (1991), p. 623</ref>{{incomplete short citation|date=December 2021}} These two men were believed to be Marwan's real biological father by Umayyad contenders.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dennett |first=Daniel C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAemzQEACAAJ |title=Marwan Ibn Muhammad: the passind of the Umayyad caliphate |date=1985 | page=189 | publisher=University Microfilms |language=en}}</ref> There is much doubt and dispute on his mother's name but she was most commonly known as Umm Marwan (meaning "Mother of Marwan").