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  "ar": "عبد السلام أبو بكر",
  "en": "Abdulsalami Abubakar",
  "ur": "عبد السلام ابوبکر"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "جنرال نيجيري (وُلد 1942) من مينا، كان رئيس أركان الدفاع (1997–1998) فتولى حكم نيجيريا في 9 يونيو 1998 بعد وفاة ساني أباتشا، فقاد انتقالا سريعا: دستور جديد وانتخابات متعددة الأحزاب، وسلّم السلطة للرئيس المنتخب أولوسيغون أوباسانجو في 29 مايو 1999. يرأس لاحقا لجنة السلام الوطنية في بلاده.",
  "en": "Nigerian general (born 1942) from Minna who was Chief of Defence Staff (1997–1998) and became Nigeria's head of state on 9 June 1998 after the death of Sani Abacha. He ran a swift transition — a new constitution and multiparty elections — and handed power to the elected president Olusegun Obasanjo on 29 May 1999. He later chairs his country's National Peace Committee.",
  "ur": "نائجریائی جرنیل (پیدائش 1942ء)، منا سے تعلق؛ چیف آف ڈیفنس اسٹاف رہے (1997ء–1998ء) اور سانی اباچہ کی وفات پر 9 جون 1998 کو نائجریا کے سربراہِ مملکت بنے؛ انھوں نے تیز انتقالِ اقتدار کیا — نیا آئین اور کثیر الجماعتی انتخابات — اور 29 مئی 1999 کو منتخب صدر اولوسے گن اوباسانجو کو اقتدار سونپ دیا؛ بعد میں قومی امن کمیٹی کے چیئرمین رہے۔"
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  "latest": 1942.4484417886429
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   "edtf": "1942-06-13",
   "hijri": "1361",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 13 June 1942 in Minna; the Arabic article files him under births of 1361 AH, the Hijri year used here.",
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Abdulsalami Abubakar",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "عبد السلام أبو بكر",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
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   "politician"
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   "edtf": "1942-06-13",
   "hijri": "1361",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 13 June 1942 in Minna; the Arabic article files him under births of 1361 AH, the Hijri year used here.",
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   ]
  },
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Thinner than the Khan configuration, unflagged. No consulted text states Abdulsalami Abubakar's religion at all: the English article says nothing about it anywhere (no text, no infobox value), the Arabic stub's infobox religion field is blank, and the Arabic article files him under 'Nigerian Muslims' (a category filing); Wikidata gives a single structured value, Islam. Filings and a structured value never count, and no source used names a school or madhhab, so under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Abdulsalami Abubakar' (revision 1380782590), Arabic Wikipedia 'عبد السلام أبو بكر' (revision 70719735) and Wikidata item Q262346 (item revision 2561155192), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn, and the Wikidata item revision was read from the API itself (its date is internally coherent). Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (abdulsalami, abubakar), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — the existing abubakar records are other men (Abubakar Gumi, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Atiku Abubakar), and the Arabic label matches no existing record's label. No Urdu article exists for him (Wikidata links the English, Arabic and Hausa articles), so the Urdu prose is written from the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata. No place entity exists for Minna, so no born_in edge is written; his successor_of edge to Sani Abacha is written in his own record on the English article's lead statement that he succeeded Abacha upon the latter's death; he handed over to Olusegun Obasanjo, who has no person record.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والمسيرة العسكرية",
     "markdown": "وُلد أبو بكر في مينا في 13 يونيو 1942 والتحق بالجيش وتدرّج في رُتبه حتى صار رئيس أركان الدفاع النيجيري من 1997 إلى 1998 في عهد أباتشا. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رأس الدولة والانتقال",
     "markdown": "بعد الوفاة المفاجئة لأباتشا أدى أبو بكر اليمين رئيسا عسكريا للدولة في 9 يونيو 1998. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} وفي أقل من سنة اعتمدت نيجيريا في عهده نسخة معدّلة من دستور 1979 وأُجريت انتخابات متعددة الأحزاب، فسلّم السلطة للرئيس المنتخب أولوسيغون أوباسانجو في 29 مايو 1999 منهيًا ستة عشر عاما من الحكم العسكري المتواصل. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "بعد الحكم وملاحظة عن الدين",
     "markdown": "بقي أبو بكر من وجهاء بلاده المحترمين ويرأس لجنة السلام الوطنية النيجيرية. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} أما دينه فلا تذكره المصادر المستعملة هنا نصا البتة: فالمقالة الإنجليزية لا تذكر شيئا عنه، وحقل الديانة في قالب المقالة العربية فارغ وإن صنّفته ضمن «مسلمين نيجيريين»، ويعطي ويكي بيانات قيمة واحدة هي «الإسلام»؛ ولا يسمّي أي مصدر مذهبا له، فبقيت قيمة دينه في سجله غير مصنّفة (unknown). {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-ar} {cite:wikidata-abdulsalami-abubakar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
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   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ar",
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and military career",
     "markdown": "Abubakar was born in Minna on 13 June 1942, joined the army and rose through its ranks to become Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff from 1997 to 1998 under Abacha. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Head of state and the transition",
     "markdown": "After Abacha's sudden death, Abubakar was sworn in as military head of state on 9 June 1998, as the English article states in its lead when it says he succeeded Abacha upon the latter's death. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} Within a year Nigeria under him adopted a modified version of the 1979 constitution and held multiparty elections, and he handed power to the elected president Olusegun Obasanjo on 29 May 1999, ending sixteen years of continuous military rule. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "After office, and a note on religion",
     "markdown": "Abubakar remains a respected elder statesman and chairs Nigeria's National Peace Committee. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} As to his religion, the sources used here state it nowhere in text: the English article says nothing about it, the Arabic stub's infobox religion field is blank though the article files him under \"Nigerian Muslims\", and Wikidata gives a single value, Islam; no source names a school for him, so his faith value is left unclassified (unknown) in his record. {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-ar} {cite:wikidata-abdulsalami-abubakar}"
    },
    {
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   "updated": "2026-10-26"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و انتقالِ اقتدار",
     "markdown": "وہ چیف آف ڈیفنس اسٹاف رہے (1997ء–1998ء) اور 9 جون 1998 کو اباچہ کی اچانک وفات پر فوجی سربراہِ مملکت بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en} ان کے دور میں نیا آئین اور کثیر الجماعتی انتخابات ہوئے اور انھوں نے 29 مئی 1999 کو منتخب صدر اولوسے گن اوباسانجو کو اقتدار سونپ دیا؛ بعد میں قومی امن کمیٹی کے چیئرمین رہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-en}\n\nکوئی ماخذ ان کے دین کا متن میں ذکر نہیں کرتا، اس لیے سجل میں دین غیر مصنف (unknown) رکھا گیا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-abdulsalami-abubakar-ar} {cite:wikidata-abdulsalami-abubakar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
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