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 "id": "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
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 "slug": "ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كتاب ملك غسان إلى كعب بن مالك",
  "en": "The letter of the king of Ghassan to Ka'b ibn Malik"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بينما كعب يمشي في السوق سأل عنه نبطي من نبط الشام ممن قدموا بالطعام، فدفع إليه كتاباً من ملك غسان في سرقة من حرير يدعوه إلى اللحاق به، فعمد كعب إلى تنور فسجّره به.",
  "en": "While Ka'b was walking in the market during the boycott, a Nabataean from the Nabataeans of al-Sham who had brought food asked after him and handed him a letter from the king of Ghassan, wrapped in a scrap of silk, inviting him to join him; Ka'b thrust it into a lit oven."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people",
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 630.7473117175575,
  "latest": 630.8321868347425
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0630-10",
   "hijri": "0009-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "رأس الباب عند ابن إسحاق: «غزوة تبوك في رجب سنة تسع»؛ والتوقيت الدقيق للواقعة داخل الغزوة غير مذكور، فنُسب إليها تاريخ الغزوة كلها. في أثناء الخمسين ليلة (ص179).",
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    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0630-10",
   "hijri": "0009-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "رأس الباب عند ابن إسحاق: «غزوة تبوك في رجب سنة تسع»؛ والتوقيت الدقيق للواقعة داخل الغزوة غير مذكور، فنُسب إليها تاريخ الغزوة كلها. في أثناء الخمسين ليلة (ص179).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
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  "kind": "other",
  "date": {
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    "edtf": "0630-10",
    "hijri": "0009-07",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "رأس الباب عند ابن إسحاق: «غزوة تبوك في رجب سنة تسع»؛ والتوقيت الدقيق للواقعة داخل الغزوة غير مذكور، فنُسب إليها تاريخ الغزوة كلها. في أثناء الخمسين ليلة (ص179).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 179",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-7b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 179"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حمل نبطي من الشام إلى كعب كتاب ملك غسان يدعوه إلى اللحاق به، فأحرقه كعب في تنور. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية",
     "markdown": "قال كعب: فبينا أنا أمشي بالسوق إذا نبطي من نبط الشام ممن قدم بالطعام يبيعه بالمدينة يقول: من يدل على كعب بن مالك؟ فجعل الناس يشيرون له إلي حتى جاءني، فدفع إلي كتاباً من ملك غسان، وكتب كتاباً في سرقة من حرير. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نص الكتاب",
     "markdown": "فإذا فيه: «أما بعد، فإنه قد بلغنا أن صاحبك قد جفاك، ولم يجعلك الله بدار هوان ولا مضيعة، فالحق بنا نواسك». {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جواب كعب",
     "markdown": "قال كعب: قلت حين قرأتها: وهذا من البلاء أيضاً، قد بلغ بي ما وقعت فيه أن طمع فيّ رجل من أهل الشرك؛ فعمدت بها إلى تنور فسجرته بها. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظات المصدر والتمريض",
     "markdown": "- لا يسمي النص الملك ولا النبطي حامل الكتاب.\n- «أهل الشرك» وصف كعب للملك على لسانه (ص179)، لا حكم المتحف.\n- تفسيرات المحققين اللغوية («النبطي»، «الطعام» هنا القمح، «المواساة») غير داخلة في الخبر."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "A Nabataean from al-Sham carried to Ka'b a letter from the king of Ghassan inviting him to join him; Ka'b burned it in an oven. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The account",
     "markdown": "Ka'b said: as I was walking in the market, a Nabataean of the Nabataeans of al-Sham, one of those who had come to sell food in Medina, asked: who will point me to Ka'b ibn Malik? The people kept pointing me out to him until he came to me and handed me a letter from the king of Ghassan — a letter written on a scrap of silk. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The letter's text",
     "markdown": "In it was: \"to proceed: we have heard that your companion has cut you off; God has not made you to be in a house of humiliation or waste — join us and we will care for you.\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ka'b's answer",
     "markdown": "Ka'b said: when I read it I said — this too is of the trial; my plight has come to the point that a man of the people of idolatry should hope for me. So I took it to an oven and stoked it with it. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/179}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Source notes and markers of doubt",
     "markdown": "- The text names neither the king nor the Nabataean who carried the letter.\n- \"The people of idolatry\" is Ka'b's description of the king on his own tongue (p. 179), not the museum's verdict.\n- The editors' linguistic glosses (\"the Nabataean\", \"food\" here meaning wheat, \"the caring\") are not part of the report."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/ghassan-kings-letter-to-kaab",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "related": [
  "event/boycott-of-the-three",
  "event/kaab-and-abu-qatada-at-the-garden-wall",
  "event/kaab-ibn-malik-delays-his-preparations",
  "event/kaab-offers-his-wealth-and-vows-truthfulness",
  "event/kaab-tells-the-prophet-the-truth",
  "event/order-to-the-three-to-separate-from-their-wives",
  "event/repentance-of-the-three-accepted",
  "event/the-three-left-behind"
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