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  "ar": "محمد بن القاسم العلوي",
  "en": "Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-'Alawi"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "محمد بن القاسم بن علي بن عمر بن علي بن الحسين، كان بالكوفة من العبادة والورع في نهاية الوصف فأخافه المعتصم سنة تسع عشرة ومائتين فهرب إلى خراسان فتنقل في مرو وسرخس والطالقان ونسا فانقاد إليه خلق كثير، ثم حمله عبد الله بن طاهر إلى المعتصم فحبسه في أزج ببستان بسر من رأى، وقيل قتل بالسم وقيل إن شيعته من الطالقان نقبوا الأزج وأخرجوه فلم يعرف له خبر، وتزعم زيدية كثيرون أنه لم يمت وأنه مهدي هذه الأمة يملؤها عدلاً {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 443-444}.",
  "en": "The devout 'Alid of Kufa who fled al-Mu'tasim to Khurasan — captured by 'Abdallah ibn Tahir, then either poisoned or smuggled out of his cage by Talaqan followers who still await him as mahdi {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 443-444}."
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 443–444",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد بن القاسم بن علي بن عمر بن علي بن الحسين. وصفته الرواية بالعبادة والورع بالكوفة. أخافه المعتصم سنة 219هـ، فهرب إلى خراسان وتنقل بين مرو وسرخس والطالقان ونسا، وانقاد إليه خلق كثير. ثم حمله عبد الله بن طاهر إلى المعتصم فحبسه في أزج ببستان بسر من رأى. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.443-444}\n\nوتضاربت الأقوال في مصيره: قيل قُتل بالسم، وقيل نقب أتباعه الأزج وأخرجوه فانقطع خبره. ويذكر المسعودي أن كثيراً من الزيدية يزعمون أنه لم يمت وأنه مهدي هذه الأمة. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.443-444}"
    }
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    "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-al-qasim-al-alawi",
    "lang": "ar",
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Umar ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn. The reports describe him as devout and pious in Kufa."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Flight and imprisonment",
     "markdown": "Al-Mu'tasim frightened him in 219 AH, and he fled to Khurasan and moved between Marw, Sarakhs, Taliqan and Nasa, and a great many people followed him. Then Abdallah ibn Tahir carried him to al-Mu'tasim, who imprisoned him in a vault in the garden at Samarra. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.443-444}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His fate",
     "markdown": "Accounts of his fate differ: it is said that he was killed by poison, and it is said that his followers breached the vault and brought him out, after which his trace was lost. Al-Mas'udi says that many of the Zaydis claim that he did not die and that he is the Mahdi of this community. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.443-444}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-al-qasim-al-alawi",
    "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"
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