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 "id": "person/maqil-ibn-qays",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "maqil-ibn-qays",
 "label": {
  "ar": "معقل بن قيس الرياحي",
  "en": "Ma'qil ibn Qays al-Riyahi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "معقل بن قيس من أمراء علي بن أبي طالب؛ لما كتب زياد بن خصفة إلى علي بخبر الخرّيت قام معقل فقال: يا أمير المؤمنين كان ينبغي أن يكون مع من يطلب هؤلاء مكان كل واحد منهم عشرة، فإن العدة تصبر للعدة، فندبه علي مع ألفين من أهل الكوفة وأمّره على جيش ضم ألفين من أهل البصرة {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 716}.",
  "en": "Ali's commander who demanded ten-for-one odds against the Khirit rebels — 'an equal number will surely stand firm for them' — and led the four-thousand-man Kufa–Basra expedition into Ahwaz {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p. 716}."
 },
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  "levant-iraq"
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  "period/rashidun"
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "military"
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الكامل في التاريخ — ابن الأثير، مسح 02-163053، ص 716",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-kamil-vol2-16"
  },
  "status": {
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   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "معقل بن قيس الرياحي من أمراء [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي بن أبي طالب]]. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.716}\n\nلما كتب زياد بن خصفة إلى علي بخبر الخريت، قام معقل فقال إنه كان ينبغي أن يكون مع من يطلبون هؤلاء عشرة مكان كل واحد منهم، لأن العدة تصبر للعدة. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.716}\n\nفندبه علي مع ألفين من أهل الكوفة، وأمّره على جيش ضم ألفين من أهل البصرة. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.716}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/maqil-ibn-qays",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Ma'qil ibn Qays al-Riyahi, one of the amirs of [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|Ali ibn Abi Talib]]. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.716}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Kharit",
     "markdown": "When Ziyad ibn Khasafa wrote to Ali with news of al-Kharit, Ma'qil stood up and said that those who sought these men should have had ten men in place of each one of them, because a numerous force holds out against a numerous force. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.716}\n\nAli sent him with two thousand men of the people of Kufa, and made him commander over an army that joined two thousand men of Basra. {cite:kamil-ibn-al-athir p.716}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/maqil-ibn-qays",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  {
   "to": "event/khirit-revolt-38",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أمير جيش علي المرسل إليه",
   "sources": [
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  }
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 "related": [
  "person/al-khirit-ibn-rashid",
  "event/khirit-revolt-38"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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