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 "label": {
  "ar": "محمد بن سليمان الكاتب",
  "en": "Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "محمد بن سليمان الكاتب، من ديار مضر من الرقة؛ اصطنعه أحمد بن طولون بمصر ثم تنكر له فلحق ببغداد فصار كاتباً للجيش ومن أعظم قواد المكتفي، أغرى الخلفاء بملك مصر فلما فشلت دولة بني طولون وعاث القرامطة بالشام بعثه المكتفي في العساكر فهزم القرامطة وأسر صاحب الشامة، ثم استولى على الشام ودخل مصر فكسر أمر هارون بن خمارويه وقيد بني طولون وأشخصهم إلى بغداد، وأحرق القطائع التي بناها أحمد بن طولون ميلاً في ميل ونُهبت الفسطاط سنة 292هـ، فكان المتولي لتحويل دولة بني طولون.",
  "en": "Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib, from Diyar Mudar of al-Raqqa; Ahmad ibn Tulun's own protege in Egypt until estranged, he fled to Baghdad becoming army secretary and one of al-Muqtafi's greatest commanders, urging the caliphs to retake Egypt — when Tulunid power failed and the Qarmatians ravaged Syria, al-Muqtafi sent him with the armies: he crushed the Qarmatians, captured their Shama chief, took Syria, entered Egypt breaking Harun ibn Khumarawayh, chained the Banu Tulun (seventeen men) and shipped them to Baghdad, and burned Ibn Tulun's al-Qata'i' mile by mile while Fustat was plundered — the man who turned over the Tulunid state in 292 AH."
 },
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 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
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  ],
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   "sunni"
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  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar",
   "source/muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن خلدون، العبر — خبر محمد بن سليمان المتولي بتحويل دولة بني طولون، ص1100 (طبعة هيليوبوليس)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "model": "swe-2-high",
   "run": "lib-ibar-east-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); extracted from Ibn Khaldun al-Ibar via Apple Vision OCR"
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد بن سليمان الكاتب من ديار مضر من الرقة. اصطنعه [[person/ahmad-ibn-tulun|أحمد بن طولون]] بمصر ثم تنكر له، فلحق ببغداد، فصار كاتباً للجيش ومن أعظم قواد [[person/al-muqtafi-billah|المكتفي]]. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1100}\n\nلما فشلت دولة بني طولون وعاث القرامطة بالشام، بعثه المكتفي في العساكر. فهزم القرامطة وأسر صاحب الشامة، ثم استولى على الشام ودخل مصر. وهزم [[person/harun-ibn-khumarawayh|هارون بن خمارويه]]، وقيّد بني طولون وأشخصهم إلى بغداد. وأُحرقت القطائع التي بناها أحمد بن طولون، ونُهبت الفسطاط سنة 292هـ. وبذلك كان المتولي لتحويل دولة بني طولون ([[event/fall-of-tulunids-292|سقوط الطولونيين]]). {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1100}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-sulayman-al-katib",
    "lang": "ar",
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   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib, from the lands of Mudar in Raqqa. [[person/ahmad-ibn-tulun|Ahmad ibn Tulun]] raised him in Egypt and then turned against him, so he went to Baghdad, where he became secretary of the army and one of the greatest commanders of [[person/al-muqtafi-billah|al-Muktafi]]. {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1100}\n\nWhen the state of the Banu Tulun failed and the Qaramita ravaged Syria, al-Muktafi sent him with the armies. He defeated the Qaramita and captured the lord of al-Shama, then took over Syria and entered Egypt. He defeated [[person/harun-ibn-khumarawayh|Harun ibn Khumarawayh]], shackled the Banu Tulun and sent them to Baghdad. The estates that Ahmad ibn Tulun had built were burned, and Fustat was plundered in 292 AH. In this way he was the one who brought about the change of the Tulunid state ([[event/fall-of-tulunids-292|the fall of the Tulunids]]). {cite:tarikh-ibn-khaldun-ibar p.1100}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-sulayman-al-katib",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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  "place/al-fustat",
  "event/fall-of-tulunids-292",
  "person/harun-ibn-khumarawayh"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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