Al-Hajjaj dismissed and imprisoned al-Mufaddal with Yazid and their brothers Habib and Abd al-Malik. They all escaped in 708 or 709 and found asylum with the Umayyad prince and governor of Palestine. Yazid was made governor of Iraq and Khurasan by Sulayman in 715, but was dismissed and imprisoned again by his successor, Caliph Umar II, in 717. When the latter died in 720, Yazid escaped and attempted to reestablish himself in the family stronghold of Basra. There the governor Adi ibn Artat al-Fazari imprisoned al-Mufaddal, Abd al-Malik and Habib as hostages.
