| Donner notes the difficulty of "achieving a sound assessment of Marwan", as with most Islamic leaders of his generation, due to an absence of archaeological and documentation and the restriction of his biographical information to often polemical literary sources | The historian presumed that Marwan was the organizer of A'isha's strategy there |
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| Despite his victory at Marj Rahit and the consolidation of Umayyad power in central Syria, Marwan's authority was not recognized in the rest of the Umayyads' former domains; with the help of Ibn Ziyad and Ibn Bahdal, Marwan undertook to restore Umayyad rule across the Caliphate with "energy and determination", according to Kennedy | According to the historian , in this capacity Marwan "doubtless helped" in the revision "of what became the of the " in Uthman's reign |
1176 are indicative of Marwan's piety, such as the 9th-century historian 's assertion that Marwan was among the best readers of the Qur'an and Marwan's own claim to have recited the Qur'an for over forty years before the Battle of Marj Rahit.
16| " Discontent over Uthman's policies and confiscation of the former crown lands in drove the Quraysh and the dispossessed elites of and to oppose the caliph | He founded the Marwanid ruling house of the , which replaced the Sufyanid house after its collapse in the and remained in power until 750 |
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| Meanwhile, Marwan sent his son Muhammad to check the Qaysi tribes in the middle Euphrates region | The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume II: C—G |
The crown lands of Iraq were lands abandoned by the royal family, the Iranian aristocracy and the clergy during the in the 630s.
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