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  "ar": "سيل مكة الهائل سنة 887هـ"
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  "ar": "في أثناء ذي القعدة سنة سبع وثمانين وثمان مئة كان بمكة السيل الهائل الذي لم يسمع بمثله خرب نحو ربع بيوت مكة وجاز في المسجد الحرام حلق باب الكعبة ومات من الخلق من لا يحصيهم إلا الله تعالى {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}.",
  "en": "In mid-Dhu'l-Qa'da 887 came the tremendous flood of Mecca, the like unheard of: nearly a quarter of Mecca's houses ruined, the water passing the Kaaba's door inside the Sacred Mosque, and of God's creatures unnumbered dead {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}."
 },
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  "arabia"
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1482~",
   "hijri": "0887",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "note": "ذو القعدة 887 {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}",
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   "edtf": "1482~",
   "hijri": "0887",
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   "note": "ذو القعدة 887 {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}",
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   "start": {
    "edtf": "1482~",
    "hijri": "0887",
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    "note": "ذو القعدة 887 {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}",
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   }
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "شذرات الذهب — ابن العماد (ج6، سنة 886)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-shadharat-batch-70"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في ذي القعدة سنة 887هـ جاء بمكة سيل وصفه «شذرات الذهب» بأنه هائل لم يسمع بمثله. وذكر أنه خرّب نحو ربع بيوت مكة، وجاز في المسجد الحرام حلق باب الكعبة، وأن من مات فيه لا يحصيهم إلا الله. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما يقوله المصدر",
     "markdown": "هذه الأوصاف من عبارة المصدر نفسه، وهي تقدير لا إحصاء. لا توجد في البيانات أرقام للضحايا أو ترتيب للأحياء المتضررة، ويحتاج ذلك إلى مصدر إضافي."
    },
    {
     "heading": "التاريخ",
     "markdown": "ذو القعدة 887هـ، ومقابله الميلادي (نحو 1482م) تحويل مشتق. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "event/mecca-flood-887",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In Dhu al-Qa'da 887 AH a flood came to Mecca which the \"Shadharat al-Dhahab\" describes as huge, the like of which had not been heard. It says that it destroyed about a quarter of the houses of Mecca, that it passed through the Sacred Mosque and reached the door of the Ka'ba, and that none could count those who died in it but God. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "What the source says",
     "markdown": "These descriptions are the source's own wording, and they are an estimate, not a count. The data gives no figures for the victims or for the districts affected, which needs an additional source."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Date",
     "markdown": "Dhu al-Qa'da 887 AH, with a Gregorian equivalent (around 1482 CE) that is derived. {cite:shadharat-dhahab p. 346}"
    }
   ],
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    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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