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 "label": {
  "ar": "ضرار بن ضمرة",
  "en": "Dirar ibn Damra"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من خواص علي، دخل على معاوية وافداً فألح عليه أن يصف له علياً فقال كان والله بعيد المدى شديد القوى يقول فصلاً ويحكم عدلاً يتفجر العلم من جوانبه وتنطق الحكمة من نواحيه، يعظم أهل الدين ويرحم المساكين ويستوحش من الدنيا وزهرتها ويأنس بالليل وظلمته، وذكر محرابه وبكاءه وقوله يا دنيا غري غيري هيهات قد أبنتك ثلاثاً {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 710-711}.",
  "en": "One of Ali's inner circle — compelled by Mu'awiya to describe him, he delivered the celebrated portrait: 'far-reaching, mighty, decisive in word, just in rule, knowledge streaming from his sides, who took comfort in night's darkness' and the mihrab weeping over 'deceive another, world' {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 710-711}."
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/الشركة العالمية) ج1 ص 710–711",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-45"
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   "review": "draft",
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   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ضرار بن ضمرة من خواص [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي]]، اشتهر بوصفه له أمام [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاوية]]. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.710-711}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصف علي",
     "markdown": "دخل على معاوية وافداً، فألح عليه أن يصف له علياً. فقال إنه كان بعيد المدى شديد القوى، يقول فصلاً ويحكم عدلاً، يتفجر العلم من جوانبه. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.710-711}\n\nوذكر أنه كان يعظم أهل الدين ويرحم المساكين ويستوحش من الدنيا، ويأنس بالليل. ثم ذكر محرابه وبكاءه وقوله: «يا دنيا غري غيري». {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.710-711}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dirar-ibn-damra",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Dirar ibn Damra, one of the close companions of [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|Ali]], known for his description of him before [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|Muawiya]]. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.710-711}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His description of Ali",
     "markdown": "He entered upon Muawiya as an envoy, and Muawiya pressed him to describe Ali. He said that he was far-reaching in his vision and strong in his power, spoke with decisiveness and judged with justice, and that knowledge gushed forth from all sides of him. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.710-711}\n\nHe said that Ali honoured the people of religion, showed mercy to the poor, felt estranged from the world and found comfort in the night. He then described his prayer niche, his weeping, and his words: \"O world, deceive someone other than me.\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.710-711}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/dirar-ibn-damra",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}