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  "ar": "مقتل المتنبي",
  "en": "The killing of al-Mutanabbi (354 AH)"
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  "ar": "خرج المتنبي من بغداد إلى فارس فمدح عضد الدولة وأقام عنده مديدة ثم رجع من شيراز يريد بغداد فقتل بالقرب من النعمانية في رمضان وقيل شعبان سنة أربع وخمسين وثلثمائة؛ وفي سبب قتله ثلاثة أقوال: أن العرب قتلته لمال كثير معه، وأن عضد الدولة دس عليه من قتله لقوله في عطائه «هذا أجزل إلا أنه عطاء متكلف وكان سيف الدولة يعطي طبعاً»، وذكر مظفر بن علي الكاتب أنه حضر قتله صبياً مع أبيه في ستين راكباً من بني ضبة فكمنا له في واد فلما رآنا قام ونادى: هلموا وجوه العرب، فقتل ولده وأخذ غلمانه وانهزم يسيراً فقال له غلام: أين قولك «الخيل والليل والبيداء تعرفني والسيف والرمح والقرطاس والقلم»؟ فقال: قتلتني قتلك الله، والله لا أهزم اليوم، ثم رجع كاراً فطعن زعيمهم في عنقه فقتله واختلفت عليه الرماح فقتل، واسم قاتله فاتك بن أبي الجهل الأسدي، وكان قتله بشط دجلة بموضع يعرف بالصافية {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}.",
  "en": "354: al-Mutanabbi, returning from Adud al-Dawla's court laden with gifts, was ambushed by Banu Dabba near al-Nu'maniyya on the Tigris. Three accounts of the motive — robbery, or the insult 'Sayf al-Dawla gave by nature; this was a strained gift'. An eyewitness: his son killed, he turned to flee until a servant quoted his own verse back at him — 'where is your line: the horses, the night and the desert know me?' — 'You have killed me', he said, 'by God I shall not be beaten today', wheeled back, slew their leader and died under the spears; his killer was Fatik ibn Abi al-Jahl al-Asadi {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}."
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   "note": "لثلاث بقين من رمضان 354 وقيل شعبان {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}.",
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   "hijri": "0354-09",
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   "note": "لثلاث بقين من رمضان 354 وقيل شعبان {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}.",
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    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "لثلاث بقين من رمضان 354 وقيل شعبان {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "المنتظم في تاريخ الملوك والأمم — ابن الجوزي، مسح AAlexandrina-224011، ج7 ص 36-37",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "خرج [[person/al-mutanabbi|المتنبي]] من بغداد إلى فارس، فمدح عضد الدولة وأقام عنده مدة. ثم رجع من شيراز يريد بغداد، فقُتل قرب النعمانية في رمضان، وقيل شعبان، سنة 354هـ. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أقوال في سبب قتله",
     "markdown": "يورد ابن الجوزي ثلاثة أقوال. الأول أن العرب قتلته لكثرة ما معه من المال. والثاني أن عضد الدولة دسّ عليه من قتله بسبب قوله في عطائه إنه جزيل لكنه عطاء متكلَّف، وإن سيف الدولة كان يعطي طبعاً. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رواية شاهد",
     "markdown": "ذكر مظفر بن علي الكاتب أنه حضر قتله صبياً مع أبيه في ستين راكباً من بني ضبة، فكمنوا له في واد. فلما رآهم نادى: هلموا وجوه العرب. فقُتل ولده وأُخذ غلمانه، فانهزم قليلاً. فذكّره غلام ببيته المشهور، فقال إنه لن يهرب اليوم، ورجع فطعن زعيمهم في عنقه فقتله، ثم اختلفت عليه الرماح فقُتل. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}\n\nاسم قاتله [[person/fatik-ibn-abi-al-jahl|فاتك بن أبي الجهل الأسدي]]، وكان ذلك على شط دجلة في موضع يعرف بالصافية. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/killing-of-mutanabbi-354",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "[[person/al-mutanabbi|Al-Mutanabbi]] left Baghdad for Fars, praised Adud al-Dawla, and stayed with him for a time. Then he returned from Shiraz toward Baghdad, and was killed near al-Nu'maniyya in Ramadan, or it is said Sha'ban, 354 AH. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Accounts of the cause",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Jawzi gives three accounts. The first is that the Arabs killed him for the great amount of money he had with him. The second is that Adud al-Dawla planted someone to kill him because of his remark about Adud's gift, that it was generous but affected, while Sayf al-Dawla gave out of nature. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "An eyewitness account",
     "markdown": "The writer Muzaffar ibn Ali reports that he witnessed his killing as a boy with his father, among sixty riders from the Banu Dabba, who lay in wait for him in a valley. When he saw them he called out: come, the notables of the Arabs. His son was killed and his servants taken, and he retreated a little. A slave reminded him of his famous line, and he said that he would not flee that day. He went back and struck their leader in the neck and killed him; then the spears turned on him and he was killed. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}\n\nThe name of his killer is [[person/fatik-ibn-abi-al-jahl|Fatik ibn Abi al-Jahl al-Asadi]], and it took place on the bank of the Tigris at a place known as al-Safiya. {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi j.7 p.36-37}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/killing-of-mutanabbi-354",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
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