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 "label": {
  "ar": "وفاة المهدي"
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  "ar": "في سنة تسع وستين ومئة مات المهدي؛ ساق خلف صيد فاقتحم الصيد خربة وتبعه الفرس فدق ظهره في بابها فمات لوقته وذلك لثمان بقين من المحرم، وقيل إنه مات مسموماً {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}.",
  "en": "In year 169 al-Mahdi died: chasing game, the quarry burst into a ruin and his horse followed, breaking his back in its doorway — he died on the spot, on the eighth of Muharram; others say he died poisoned {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0785-08~",
   "hijri": "0169-01-08",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "8 محرم 169؛ رواية السم بديلة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
  },
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   "edtf": "0785-08~",
   "hijri": "0169-01-08",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "8 محرم 169؛ رواية السم بديلة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
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    "edtf": "0785-08~",
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    "note": "8 محرم 169؛ رواية السم بديلة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 443",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-17"
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 "prose": {
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 169هـ، لثمان بقين من المحرم، مات [[person/al-mahdi|المهدي]]. ساق خلف صيد، فاقتحم الصيد خربة وتبعه الفرس، فدقّ ظهره في بابها فمات لوقته. وقيل إنه مات مسموماً. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة",
     "markdown": "الرواية الثانية، رواية السم، ينقلها السيوطي بصيغة «قيل». والخبر من مصدر واحد، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "event/death-of-al-mahdi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 169 AH, eight nights before the end of Muharram, [[person/al-mahdi|al-Mahdi]] died. He rode in pursuit of game, the game ran into a ruin and he followed it, and his back struck the doorway, and he died instantly. It is also said that he died poisoned. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note",
     "markdown": "The second account, the poison account, is related by al-Suyuti with the phrase \"it is said\". The report comes from a single source and needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "event/death-of-al-mahdi",
    "lang": "en",
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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  "event/al-sila-canal",
  "event/captives-of-samalu",
  "event/conquest-of-marash",
  "event/deposition-of-isa-ibn-musa",
  "event/execution-of-salih-ibn-abd-al-quddus",
  "event/founding-of-al-hadath",
  "event/founding-of-baghdad",
  "event/founding-of-muhammadiyya-rayy"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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