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 "id": "event/incident-of-dhat-anwat",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "incident-of-dhat-anwat",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Dhat Anwat incident",
  "ar": "قصة ذات أنواط"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "On the march to Hunayn the army passed the sacred tree Dhat Anwat, where pagans hung their weapons and held rites; some of the newly converted soldiers asked the Prophet to 'appoint for us a Dhat Anwat as they have one', and he rebuked the request, likening it to the Israelites' demand that Moses make them a god.",
  "ar": "مرّ الجيش في طريقه إلى حنين بشجرة ذات أنواط كان المشركون يعلّقون عليها أسلحتهم ويعكفون عندها ويذبحون لها، فطلب بعض حديثي العهد بالإسلام: «اجعل لنا ذات أنواط كما لهم ذات أنواط»، فأنكر النبي عليهم قولهم وشبّهه بطلب قوم موسى صنماً يعكفون عليه، وأخبرهم أنها السنن وأنهم سيتبعون سنن من كان قبلهم."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "creed",
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 629.9998631046496,
  "latest": 630.0847382218346
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0630-01",
   "hijri": "0008-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في طريق الخروج من مكة إلى حنين، شوال سنة 8هـ.",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0630-01",
   "hijri": "0008-10",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "في طريق الخروج من مكة إلى حنين، شوال سنة 8هـ.",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0630-01",
    "hijri": "0008-10",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "في طريق الخروج من مكة إلى حنين، شوال سنة 8هـ.",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/jami-al-tirmidhi"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum p. 415"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حادثة وقعت في طريق الجيش من مكة إلى [[event/battle-of-hunayn|حنين]] في شوال سنة 8هـ؛ مرّ المسلمون بسدرة عظيمة خضراء يقال لها ذات أنواط، كان المشركون يعلّقون عليها أسلحتهم ويعكفون عندها ويذبحون لها {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص415}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "«اجعل لنا ذات أنواط»",
     "markdown": "قال بعض أهل الجيش — وكان فيهم كثير من حديثي العهد بالإسلام من أهل مكة — للنبي: اجعل لنا ذات أنواط كما لهم ذات أنواط {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص415}. فأنكر عليهم قولهم وقال: «الله أكبر، قلتم والذي نفس محمد بيده كما قال قوم موسى: اجعل لنا إلهاً كما لهم آلهة، قال: إنكم قوم تجهلون»، وأخبرهم أنها السنن وأنهم سيركبون سنن من كان قبلهم {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص415؛ jami-al-tirmidhi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "رأى بعض المسلمين الجدد شجرة كبيرة كان المشركون يعظمونها ويعلقون عليها سيوفهم، فطلبوا شجرة مثلها لأنفسهم. فعلّمهم النبي أن التوحيد لا يحتاج أصناماً ولا شجراً مقدساً، وأن طلبهم يشبه طلب قوم موسى صنماً، فتعلموا درساً في توحيد العبادة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/incident-of-dhat-anwat",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "An incident on the army's road from Mecca to [[event/battle-of-hunayn|Hunayn]] in Shawwal 8 AH: the Muslims passed a great green lote-tree called Dhat Anwat, on which the polytheists used to hang their weapons, at which they would tarry in devotion, and to which they would sacrifice {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 415}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "\"Make us a Dhat Anwat\"",
     "markdown": "Some of the army — many of them Meccans new to Islam — said to the Prophet: make us a Dhat Anwat as they have a Dhat Anwat {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 415}. He rebuked their words and said: \"God is greatest — you have said, by Him in whose hand Muhammad's soul is, as the people of Moses said: make us a god as they have gods. He said: you are a people who act in ignorance,\" and told them this was the way of things — that they would tread the ways of those before them {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 415; jami-al-tirmidhi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Some of the new Muslims saw a great tree the polytheists venerated, hanging their swords on it, and asked for a tree like it for themselves. The Prophet taught them that monotheism needs neither idols nor sacred trees, and that their request resembled the people of Moses asking for an idol — so they learned a lesson in the oneness of worship."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/incident-of-dhat-anwat",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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   "role": "rebuked-the-request",
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  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-hunayn",
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  {
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 "related": [
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "event/siege-of-taif",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "event/incident-of-the-slander",
  "event/address-to-the-ansar-at-jirana",
  "event/al-dawa-al-sirriyya",
  "event/ali-expedition-to-al-fuls",
  "event/bahira-encounter"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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