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 "id": "person/al-tahawi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "al-tahawi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبو جعفر الطحاوي",
  "en": "Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi"
 },
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  "ar": "إمام محدث فقيه حنفي مصري من الأزد، قيل إنه أخذ العلم عن نحو ثلاثمئة شيخ؛ له «مشكل الآثار» و«معاني الآثار» و«العقيدة الطحاوية».",
  "en": "A Hanafi hadith scholar and jurist of Egypt from the tribe of Azd, said to have taken knowledge from about three hundred teachers; author of Mushkil al-Athar, Ma'ani al-Athar and the Tahawi creed."
 },
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  "egypt-nile"
 ],
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  "creed"
 ],
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   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أحمد بن محمد بن سلامة أبو جعفر الطحاوي الأزدي الحنفي المصري"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "hijri": "0239",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date from the short biography in the Dar Ibn Hazm edition; one source, a second is needed before promotion.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "hijri": "0321",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Died in Egypt in 321 AH according to the same biography; one source, a second is needed.",
   "sources": [
    "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "jurist",
   "theologian"
  ],
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   "sunni"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni-hanafi",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "He names himself as following the creed of the jurists of the community Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan in the preamble of his creed.",
    "sources": [
     "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "العقيدة الطحاوية، طبعة دار ابن حزم 1995، ص 5 و7",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "tahawiyya-1"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/aqida-tahawiyya"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; from the biographical note and preamble of the Dar Ibn Hazm edition, no prose yet"
  }
 },
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   "to": "work/aqida-tahawiyya",
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  "work/sharh-aqida-tahawiyya",
  "work/aqida-tahawiyya",
  "concept/ahl-al-qibla",
  "concept/akhira",
  "concept/ashara-mubashshara",
  "concept/ashrat-al-saa",
  "concept/bida",
  "concept/hubb-al-sahaba"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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