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  "ar": "امرؤ القيس بن حجر"
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  "ar": "امرؤ القيس بن حجر الكندي، أشهر شعراء الجاهلية وصاحب إحدى المعلقات؛ طرده أبوه حجر لقوله الشعر فكان يسير في أحياء العرب يشرب الخمر ويتصيد، فلما أتاه نعي أبيه وهو يشرب ويلعب النرد بدمون من أرض اليمن قال «ضيعني صغيراً وحملني دمه كبيراً، لأصحو اليوم ولأسكر غداً، اليوم خمر وغداً أمر» فذهبت مثلاً، وحرم على نفسه الخمر والنساء حتى يقتل من بني أسد مائة ويطلق مائة، فاستنصر بكراً وتغلب فأجاباه حتى وضع السلاح في بني كنانة يظنهم بني أسد، ثم استمد حمير وأزد شنوءة، ولما طلبه المنذر صاحب الحيرة تفرق عنه أصحابه فنزل على السموأل بن عادياء اليهودي بقلعة الأبلق وأودعه أهله وأدراعه وكتب له إلى الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني ليوصله إلى قيصر يستنصره على ثأر أبيه {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}.",
  "en": "Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi, the most celebrated of the jahili poets and author of a Mu'allaqa: banished by his father for poetry, he was drinking and playing nard at Damun when word came of Hujr's death — 'he ruined me young and loaded me with his blood grown; today wine, tomorrow the affair' — and swore off wine and women until he had slain a hundred of Banu Asad; when al-Mundhir of al-Hira pursued him he lodged his family and armour with Samaw'al ibn Adiya at al-Ablaq and went on to seek Byzantine help {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}."
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  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
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    "value": "امرؤ القيس بن حجر الكندي",
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    "value": "ذو القروح",
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   "poet"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ لابن الأثير — أيام العرب، ص384-385",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-kamil-22"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "امرؤ القيس بن حجر الكندي، ويُكنى «ذو القروح»، من أشهر شعراء الجاهلية وصاحب إحدى المعلقات. وهو ابن [[person/hujr-ibn-al-harith-al-kindi|حجر بن الحارث الكندي]] ومن [[group/kinda|كندة]]. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "شبابه",
     "markdown": "يذكر ابن الأثير أن أباه طرده بسبب قوله الشعر، فكان يتنقل بين أحياء العرب يشرب الخمر ويتصيد. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خبر مقتل أبيه",
     "markdown": "بلغه نعي أبيه وهو يشرب ويلعب النرد بدمون من أرض اليمن، فقال قولاً صار مثلاً، معناه: ضيّعني صغيراً وحمّلني دمه كبيراً، لأصحون اليوم ولأسكرن غداً، اليوم خمر وغداً أمر. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}\n\nحرّم على نفسه الخمر والنساء حتى يقتل من بني أسد مائة ويطلق مائة. فاستنصر بكراً وتغلب فأجابتاه. ثم استمد حمير وأزد شنوءة. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اللجوء إلى السموأل",
     "markdown": "لما طلبه المنذر صاحب الحيرة تفرق عنه أصحابه. فنزل على [[person/al-samawal-ibn-adiya|السموأل بن عادياء]] اليهودي في قلعة الأبلق، فأجاره وأودعه أهله وأدراعه. وكتب له إلى الحارث بن أبي شمر الغساني ليوصله إلى قيصر يستنصره على ثأر أبيه. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    }
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    "id": "person/imru-al-qays-ibn-hujr",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi, known by the kunya \"Dhu al-Qurooh\" (the one with the sores), one of the most famous poets of the pre-Islamic period and author of one of the Mu'allaqat. He is the son of [[person/hujr-ibn-al-harith-al-kindi|Hujr ibn al-Harith al-Kindi]] and of [[group/kinda|Kinda]]. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Youth",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Athir says that his father drove him away because of his poetry, so he moved among the tribes of the Arabs, drinking wine and hunting. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The news of his father's death",
     "markdown": "When news of his father's death reached him, he was drinking and playing dice at Dumun in the land of Yemen, and he said a saying that became a proverb. Its sense is: \"He left me small and burdened me, grown, with his blood. Today I shall be sober, and tomorrow I shall be drunk: today is wine, and tomorrow a matter.\" {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}\n\nHe forbade himself wine and women until he had killed a hundred men of the Banu Asad and divorced a hundred women. He sought help from Bakr and Taghlib, and they answered him. Then he sought the aid of Himyar and of Azd Shanua. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Seeking refuge with al-Samawal",
     "markdown": "When al-Mundhir, lord of al-Hira, pursued him, his companions dispersed from him. He alighted with [[person/al-samawal-ibn-adiya|al-Samaw'al ibn Adiya]], the Jew, in the fortress of al-Ablaq. He granted him protection and entrusted to him his family and his armour. He wrote for him to al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir al-Ghassani, so that he could pass him to Caesar to seek help for the vengeance for his father. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 384-385}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/imru-al-qays-ibn-hujr",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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   "note": "أجاره وأودعه أهله وأدراعه",
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  "event/hujr-ibn-al-harith-killing",
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