After the death of Hisham Ibn Abdul Malik – the Umayyad Caliph, Walid Ibn Yazid took over the reins of the Caliphate in the year 125 ah. He was of those, about whom the Noble Prophet (s.a.w) had prophesized:
هُوَ اَشَدُّ هَذِهِ الاُمَّةِ مِن فِرعَون لِقَومِه.
“From this Ummah there shall ascend to the caliphate a person, who shall be worse than what Firawn had been with respect to his people.”
Walid, who was perpetually in a state of intoxication, used to say: “Who has ever said that Prophethood has been for the Hashemites? Essentially, there has neither been any Revelation nor any Book from Allah.”
Once, the muezzin’s recitation of the Adhan for the morning prayers aroused the inebriated Walid, who had been sleeping with his slave-girl, who too was in a state of intoxication. Waking up, he had sexual intercourse with her and then swore that he would make her lead the congregational prayers that morning. Attiring her in his clothes he sent her to the mosque in that state of ceremonial uncleanness where she led the congregation and the people offered their prayers behind her!
One day, seeking an augury (Istikhara) from the Noble Qur`an, the following verse came up before Walid: “But they sought victory and decision (there and then), and frustration was the lot of every powerful obstinate transgressor.”9
Closing the Qur`an he suspended it as a target and then began shooting arrows at it – striking it with so many arrows that it eventually tore down into pieces. Having done this he shouted: “O’ Qur`an! Do you threaten me and refer to me as an “obstinate transgressor”? When the Day of Judgment comes to pass, tell Allah that Walid tore me into pieces.”
The consequence of his disbelief and rebelliousness was that he could only rule for one year – killed in an extremely horrendous fashion, his head was suspended from atop the palace and his impure body buried outside the city.( Tatimmah al-Muntaha, pg. 90 )