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 "label": {
  "ar": "لقمان الأكبر العادي",
  "en": "Luqman al-Akbar"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لقمان بن عاد بن عاد، بان سد سبأ المسناة الذي كان فرسخاً في فرسخ، وعمر من قومه عمر النسور كما ذكر المسعودي في كتابه أخبار الزمان عند طول الأعمار، وأكثرت العرب في صفة طول عمر النسر وضربت به الأمثال وبلبد وبصحة بدن الغراب {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 489, 492}.",
  "en": "Luqman son of 'Ad — builder of Saba's dam — who lived, in the saying, the vultures' span, the proverbial longevity the Arabs likened to the raven's health {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 489, 492}."
 },
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  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
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 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/الشركة العالمية) ج1 ص 489, 492",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-17"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "لقمان بن عاد، ويسميه المسعودي لقمان الأكبر. تنسب إليه الروايات بناء سد سبأ المسناة الذي ذكر أنه كان فرسخاً في فرسخ. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.489}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "طول العمر",
     "markdown": "يذكر المسعودي في «أخبار الزمان» عند حديثه عن طول الأعمار أنه عمّر من قومه عمر النسور. ويضيف أن العرب أكثرت في وصف طول عمر النسر وضربت به الأمثال، وكذلك في صحة بدن الغراب. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.492}\n\nالخبر منقول عن المسعودي وحده، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/luqman-al-akbar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Luqman ibn Ad, whom al-Mas'udi calls Luqman the Great. Reports attribute to him the building of the dam of Sheba, a causeway which he is said to have made a farsakh by a farsakh. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.489}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Longevity",
     "markdown": "Al-Mas'udi says, in *Akhbar al-Zaman*, when he speaks of long life, that he lived among his people the lifespan of vultures. He adds that the Arabs were lavish in describing the long life of the eagle and used it as a proverb, and likewise the health of the body of the crow. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.492}\n\nThe report is from al-Mas'udi alone, and it needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/luqman-al-akbar",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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 "degree": 0,
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}