{
 "id": "concept/al-musnad",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "al-musnad",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المسند الحميري",
  "en": "The Himyarite musnad"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قلم حمير الذي كانت تكتب به على خلاف أشكال ألف العربية وبائها وتائها، وروى ابن النديم عن ثقة سمع مشايخ من أهل اليمن يقولون ذلك، ورأى بنفسه في جزء من خزانة المأمون ترجمته القلم الحميري فأثبت مثاله على ما كان في النسخة {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 14}.",
  "en": "The Himyarite script — Ibn al-Nadim saw its exemplar in al-Ma'mun's own khizana {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 14}."
 },
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 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "term",
  "sources": [
   "source/fihrist-ibn-al-nadim"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "المسند قلم حِمْير، وكانت تكتب به على خلاف أشكال الألف والباء والتاء في العربية. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.14}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رواية ابن النديم",
     "markdown": "روى [[person/ibn-al-nadim|ابن النديم]] عن ثقة سمع مشايخ من أهل اليمن يقولون ذلك. ورأى بنفسه في جزء من خزانة المأمون ترجمته القلم الحميري، فأثبت مثاله على ما كان في النسخة. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.14}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/al-musnad",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Musnad is the script of Himyar. The Himyarites wrote with it in forms that differ from the shapes of the alif, ba and ta of Arabic. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.14}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ibn al-Nadim's report",
     "markdown": "[[person/ibn-al-nadim|Ibn al-Nadim]] relates from a trustworthy source who heard elders of Yemen say this. He also saw with his own eyes, in a part of the library of al-Ma'mun, a translation of it into the Himyaritic script, and he recorded its form as it appeared in that copy. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.14}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/al-musnad",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}