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 "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-yusuf-al-thaqafi",
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 "slug": "muhammad-ibn-yusuf-al-thaqafi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "محمد بن يوسف الثقفي",
  "en": "Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أخو الحجاج بن يوسف؛ ولاه الحجاج اليمن فأساء السيرة وظلم الرعية وأخذ أراضي الناس بغير حقها — وكان مما اغتصبه الحُرجة — وضرب على أهل اليمن خراجاً جعله وظيفة عليهم، فلما ولي عمر بن عبد العزيز أمر عامله بإلغاء الوظيفة والاقتصار على العشر وقال «والله لئن لا تأتيني من اليمن حفنة كَثَم أحب إليّ من إقرار هذه الوظيفة»، فلما ولي يزيد بن عبد الملك أمر بردّها.",
  "en": "Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf's brother; appointed over Yemen by him he governed badly, wronged the subjects and seized people's lands unlawfully — among them al-Hurja — and imposed on the people of Yemen a kharaj made into a fixed wazifa; when Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz took office he ordered his agent to abolish the levy and content himself with the tithe, saying 'by God, that not a handful of katam should reach me from Yemen is dearer to me than confirming this wazifa'; when Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik took office he ordered it restored."
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
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 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "محمد بن يوسف أخو الحجاج بن يوسف"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "politician"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 99–100",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-4"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد بن يوسف الثقفي أخو [[person/al-hajjaj-ibn-yusuf|الحجاج بن يوسف]]. ولّاه الحجاج اليمن. يذكر البلاذري أنه أساء السيرة وظلم الرعية، وأخذ أراضي الناس بغير حقها، ومنها الحُرجة، وضرب على أهل اليمن خراجاً جعله وظيفة عليهم. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.99-100}\n\nفلما ولي [[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|عمر بن عبد العزيز]] أمر عامله بإلغاء الوظيفة والاقتصار على العشر. وقال بحسب الرواية إن عدم وصول حفنة من الكثم إليه من اليمن أحب إليه من إقرار هذه الوظيفة. فلما ولي يزيد بن عبد الملك أمر بردّها. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.99-100}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-yusuf-al-thaqafi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi, brother of [[person/al-hajjaj-ibn-yusuf|al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf]]. Al-Hajjaj appointed him over Yemen. Al-Baladhuri says that he behaved badly, wronged the subjects, took people's lands without right, among them al-Hurjah, and imposed on the people of Yemen a land tax that he made into an office over them. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.99-100}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The reversal",
     "markdown": "When [[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz]] came to power he ordered his governor to cancel the office and keep to the tithe. The report says that he said that a handful of the Kutham not arriving from Yemen to him was dearer to him than the establishment of this office. When Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik came to power, he ordered it restored. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.99-100}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/muhammad-ibn-yusuf-al-thaqafi",
    "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",
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 }
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