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 "id": "person/ghaylan-ibn-kharasha",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "ghaylan-ibn-kharasha",
 "label": {
  "ar": "غيلان بن خرشة الضبي",
  "en": "Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "غيلان بن خرشة الضبي؛ تولى لعبد الله بن عامر حفر نهر أم عبد الله دجاجة وهو النهر الذي قال فيه حارثة بن بدر الغداني لابن عامر وقد سايره لم أر أعظم بركة من هذا النهر يستقي منه الضعفاء من أبواب دورهم ثم ساير زياداً فقال ما رأيت نهراً شراً منه يغرق فيه صبيانهم وروى قوم أن القائل هذا غيلان.",
  "en": "Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi; he ran Ibn Amir's digging of the Umm Abdallah Dajaja canal — the one Haritha ibn Badr praised riding with Ibn Amir ('never a greater blessing — the weak drink at their own doors') then damned riding with Ziyad ('never a worse canal — their boys drown in it'); some say the two-tongued speaker was Ghaylan himself."
 },
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  "period/umayyad"
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 "data": {
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "extraction_flow": "Apple Vision OCR -> manual extraction"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "غيلان بن خرشة الضبي تولى لعبد الله بن عامر حفر نهر أم عبد الله دجاجة. وينقل البلاذري قول حارثة بن بدر الغداني لابن عامر وقد سايره: لم أر أعظم بركة من هذا النهر، يستقي منه الضعفاء من أبواب دورهم. ثم قال لزياد حين سايره: ما رأيت نهراً شراً منه، يغرق فيه صبيانهم. ويروي قوم أن القائل هو غيلان نفسه. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ghaylan-ibn-kharasha",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi, who was given charge by Abd Allah ibn Amir of digging the river of Umm Abd Allah Dajaja. Al-Baladhuri reports the words of Haritha ibn Badr al-Ghudani to Ibn Amir when he rode beside him: \"I have not seen a river of greater blessing than this one; the weak draw water from it at their house doors.\" Then he said to Ziyad when he rode beside him: \"I have never seen a worse river than this one; their children drown in it.\" Some people report that the speaker was Ghaylan himself. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/ghaylan-ibn-kharasha",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}