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 "label": {
  "ar": "ذو النون المصري"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أول من تكلم بمصر في ترتيب الأحوال ومقامات أهل الولاية، فأنكر عليه عبد الله بن عبد الحكم رئيس مصر وأحدث علماً لم يتكلم فيه السلف ورماه بالزندقة فأحضر إلى المتوكل فلما سمع كلامه ولع به وأحبه وأكرمه حتى كان يقول إذا ذكر الصالحون فحيهلا بذي النون {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 543}.، وعند ابن النديم هو أبو الفيض ذو النون بن إبراهيم وكان متصوفا وله أثر في الصنعة وكتب مصنفة فمن كتبه كتاب الركن الأكبر وكتاب الثقة في الصنعة {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 503-504}",
  "en": "The first in Egypt to discourse on the ordering of states and the stations of God's friends; Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Hakim, Egypt's Maliki chief, charged him with an unheard-of science and zandaqa — brought on the barid to al-Mutawakkil he won him over: 'when the righteous are mentioned, how is Dhu'l-Nun!' {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 543}."
 },
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  "period/abbasid-early"
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 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 538–544",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-28"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fihrist-ibn-al-nadim",
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
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  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ذو النون المصري صوفي عرّفه السيوطي بأنه أول من تكلم بمصر في ترتيب الأحوال ومقامات أهل الولاية. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.543}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخلاف حوله",
     "markdown": "أنكر عليه عبد الله بن عبد الحكم رئيس مصر، ورأى أنه أحدث علماً لم يتكلم فيه السلف، ورماه بالزندقة. فأُحضر إلى [[person/al-mutawakkil|المتوكل]]، فلما سمع كلامه أحبه وأكرمه، حتى كان يقول: «إذا ذكر الصالحون فحيهلا بذي النون». {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.543}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عند ابن النديم",
     "markdown": "يذكره ابن النديم باسم أبي الفيض ذي النون بن إبراهيم، وكان متصوفاً. وله أثر في الصنعة وكتب مصنفة، منها «الركن الأكبر» و«الثقة في الصنعة». {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.503-504}\n\nلا تذكر البيانات تاريخ ميلاده ولا وفاته؛ يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dhu-al-nun-al-misri",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Dhu al-Nun al-Misri, a Sufi whom al-Suyuti describes as the first to speak in Egypt about the ordering of spiritual states and the stations of those close to God. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.543}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Disputes about him",
     "markdown": "Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Hakam, the leading figure in Egypt, disputed with him. He held that Dhu al-Nun had introduced a science that the early scholars had not spoken of, and he accused him of heresy. He was brought before [[person/al-mutawakkil|al-Mutawakkil]], who, when he heard him speak, loved him and honoured him, to the point that he would say: \"When the righteous are mentioned, welcome to Dhu al-Nun.\" {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.543}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "In Ibn al-Nadim",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Nadim names him Abu al-Fayd Dhu al-Nun ibn Ibrahim and says that he was a Sufi. He had a role in alchemy and wrote books, among them al-Rukn al-Akbar and al-Thiqa fi al-San'a. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.503-504}\n\nThe data does not give his birth or death dates; an additional source is needed."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dhu-al-nun-al-misri",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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  "event/al-mufarraj-fortresses",
  "event/al-qummi-buja-war",
  "event/bugha-pacification-armenia",
  "event/conquest-of-barah",
  "event/demolition-of-husayn-tomb",
  "event/founding-of-mutawakkiliyya",
  "event/ghiyar-decree-235",
  "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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