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 "id": "person/miskin-al-madani",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "miskin-al-madani",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مسكين المدني",
  "en": "Miskin al-Madani"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "يعرف بأبي صدقة، كان عبداً خياطاً لبعض آل الزبير يدفع ضريبة درهمين في اليوم، اشترى صوتاً من سوداء تحمل جرة بأربعة دراهم على دفعتين فحلق مولاه لحيته ورأسه وضربه خمسين جريدة ثم قال لو كنت قلته أمس لأعتقتك، فغناه للرشيد في محفل المغنين فرفعت الستارة وأمر له بأربعة آلاف دينار كما قالت السوداء {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 348-349}.",
  "en": "The tailor-slave who bought the jar-girl's tune for four dirhams and a shaved head — and sang it before al-Rashid for four thousand dinars {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 348-349}."
 },
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 348–349",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-79"
  },
  "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": "مسكين المدني، ويعرف بأبي صدقة. كان عبداً خياطاً لبعض آل الزبير، يدفع ضريبة درهمين في اليوم. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.348-349}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكاية",
     "markdown": "يروي المسعودي أنه اشترى صوتاً من سوداء تحمل جرة بأربعة دراهم على دفعتين. فحلق مولاه لحيته ورأسه وضربه خمسين جريدة، ثم قال له: لو قلته أمس لأعتقتك. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.348-349}\n\nغنّى للرشيد في محفل المغنين، فرُفعت الستارة، وأمر له بأربعة آلاف دينار كما قالت السوداء. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.348-349}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/miskin-al-madani",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Miskin al-Madani, known as Abu Sadaqa. He was a tailor-slave of some of the family of al-Zubayr, who paid a tax of two dirhams a day. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.348-349}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "Al-Mas'udi relates that he bought a melody from a black slave-girl who carried a jar, for four dirhams in two payments. His master shaved his beard and head, struck him fifty strokes, and then said: \"If you had said it yesterday I would have freed you.\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.348-349}\n\nHe sang for al-Rashid at the gathering of singers; the curtain was raised, and he was ordered four thousand dinars, as the slave-girl had said. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.348-349}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/miskin-al-madani",
    "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"
 }
}