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  "ar": "شيخ أحمد ليمو",
  "en": "Ahmed Lemu",
  "ur": "شیخ احمد لیمو"
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  "ar": "عالم وتربوي وقاضٍ نيجيري، وُلد في قرية ليمو قرب بيدا بولاية نيجر سنة 1929 وتوفي في 24 ديسمبر 2020. تعلّم في ليمو وكانو ثم في كلية الدراسات الشرقية والأفريقية بجامعة لندن، ودرّس العربية والدراسات الإسلامية وترقّى في التفتيش التربوي، ثم صار أول قاضٍ شرعي بمحكمة الاستئناف في صكتو وكبيرَ قضاة محكمة الاستئناف الشرعية بولاية نيجر. أسس مع زوجته عائشة ليمو صندوقَ التعليم الإسلامي سنة 1969، ونال جائزة الملك فيصل العالمية لخدمة الإسلام سنة 2014.",
  "en": "Nigerian Muslim scholar, educationist and judge, born in the village of Lemu near Bida in Niger State in 1929 and died on 24 December 2020. He was educated at Lemu and Kano and then at SOAS, University of London; he taught Arabic and Islamic studies and rose through the education inspectorate, then became the first Sharia judge of the Sokoto Court of Appeal and Grand Khadi of the Niger State Sharia Court of Appeal. With his wife Aisha Lemu he founded the Islamic Educational Trust in 1969, and he received the King Faisal International Prize for service to Islam in 2014.",
  "ur": "نائیجیریا کے مسلمان عالم، ماہرِ تعلیم اور جج، 1929ء میں ریاست نائجر کے قصبہ بیدا کے قریب گاؤں لیمو میں پیدا ہوئے اور 24 دسمبر 2020ء کو وفات پائی۔ انھوں نے لیمو اور کانو، پھر لندن یونیورسٹی کے اسکول آف اورینٹل اینڈ افریقن اسٹڈیز میں تعلیم حاصل کی؛ عربی اور اسلامی مطالعات کی تدریس کی اور محکمۂ تعلیم میں ترقی کرتے ہوئے، پھر سکوٹو اپیل کورٹ کے پہلے شرعی جج اور ریاست نائجر کی شرعی اپیل کورٹ کے گرینڈ قاضی بنے۔ انھوں نے اپنی اہلیہ عائشہ لیمو کے ساتھ 1969ء میں اسلامک ایجوکیشن ٹرسٹ کی بنیاد رکھی، اور 2014ء میں انھیں خدمتِ اسلام پر شاہ فیصل عالمی انعام ملا۔"
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  "earliest": 1929.969061650821,
  "latest": 2020.9825663771014
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   "edtf": "1929-12-21",
   "hijri": "1348",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "Born at Lemu village near Bida, Niger State. The month is contested inside the sources read: the English article's lead and infobox and Wikidata give 21 December 1929, and the Arabic article gives 20 Rajab 1348, the same day; the English article's early-life section and the Urdu article give 21 November 1929. The date is recorded from the lead, the Arabic Hijri date and Wikidata, with the November variant stated here. Lemu and Bida have no place entities in the museum yet, so no born_in relation is written.",
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   "edtf": "2020-12-24",
   "hijri": "1442",
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   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "Died on 24 December 2020: the English article gives the day, citing Premium Times and Daily Trust reports published that day, the Arabic article gives 9 Jumada al-Awwal 1442, the same day, and Wikidata gives 24 December 2020. The queue line's death year 2021 is wrong.",
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    "value": "أحمد ليمو",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Ahmad Tijjani Abubakar",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Shehu Ahmadu",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   "note": "Born at Lemu village near Bida, Niger State. The month is contested inside the sources read: the English article's lead and infobox and Wikidata give 21 December 1929, and the Arabic article gives 20 Rajab 1348, the same day; the English article's early-life section and the Urdu article give 21 November 1929. The date is recorded from the lead, the Arabic Hijri date and Wikidata, with the November variant stated here. Lemu and Bida have no place entities in the museum yet, so no born_in relation is written.",
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   "edtf": "2020-12-24",
   "hijri": "1442",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "note": "Died on 24 December 2020: the English article gives the day, citing Premium Times and Daily Trust reports published that day, the Arabic article gives 9 Jumada al-Awwal 1442, the same day, and Wikidata gives 24 December 2020. The queue line's death year 2021 is wrong.",
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source read names a school for him. The English article names no madhhab in its text or infobox and files him only under Nigerian Muslims; the Arabic article's infobox leaves the religion field empty and its text names no school; the Urdu article follows the English; Wikidata carries no religion claim at all. His service as a Sharia judge and Grand Khadi is judicial office, which does not attest a personal school, and his books on prayer, fasting, zakat and hajj name no school for their author. The Arabic article records that his father named him Shehu Ahmadu after Ahmad al-Tijani; a name given by a parent is not an attestation of the son's affiliation, and no source describes Lemu himself as a Tijani. Recorded unknown under the doubt rule.",
    "sources": [
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     "source/wikidata-ahmed-lemu"
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "The English Wikipedia article 'Ahmed Lemu' at revision 1373817243, the Arabic article «شيخ أحمد ليمو» at revision 76623332 (reached through the redirect from «أحمد ليمو») and the Urdu article «شیخ احمد لیمو» at revision 10009541, each fetched by revision id through the MediaWiki API with the returned revid asserted equal before use, and Wikidata item Q33889400 (item revision 2521934168), all read on 26 October 2026. Identity is grounded on the birth at Lemu in 1929, the SOAS education, the Grand Khadi career and the founding of the Islamic Educational Trust, matching the queue line 'Sheikh Ahmed Lemu — 1929–2021' except for the death year, which the sources give as 2020 (see the died note). Existence was checked before writing by filename fragments (lemu, limo), by Arabic label and by QID across data/person/: no record existed for him; the Batch 56 record for his daughter, data/person/maryam-lemu.yaml, states the same. His spouse relation is written once, in his wife Aisha Lemu's record, pointing at this record (spouse_of is self-inverse). Lemu, Bida and Minna have no place entities in the museum yet and the Islamic Educational Trust has no group entity, so no relations are written here.",
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