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 "id": "person/mutarrif-ibn-abdallah",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "mutarrif-ibn-abdallah",
 "label": {
  "ar": "مطرف بن عبد الله",
  "en": "Mutarrif ibn 'Abd Allah"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كتب إلى عمر بن عبد العزيز إن الدنيا دار عقوبة لها يجمع من لا عقل له وبها يغتر من لا علم له فكن بها كالمداوي جرحه واصبر على شدة الدواء لما تخاف من عاقبة الداء {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 175}.",
  "en": "His letter to the caliph — 'this world is a house of punishment; be in it like one tending his wound, bearing the bitter medicine for fear of the disease's end' {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 175}."
 },
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 ],
 "regions": [],
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 175",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-61"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مطرف بن عبد الله كاتب رسالة وعظية إلى عمر بن عبد العزيز، أوردها المسعودي. ولا تذكر البيانات عنه غير ذلك؛ يحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.175}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رسالته",
     "markdown": "كتب إلى الخليفة أن الدنيا دار عقوبة، يجمع لها من لا عقل له، ويغتر بها من لا علم له. ونصحه أن يكون فيها كمن يداوي جرحه، فيصبر على شدة الدواء خوفاً من عاقبة الداء. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.175}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mutarrif-ibn-abdallah",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Mutarrif ibn Abdallah, a secretary who wrote a sermon-like letter to Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, which al-Mas'udi includes. The data give nothing else about him; a second source is needed. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.175}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His letter",
     "markdown": "He wrote to the caliph that this world is a house of punishment, in which whoever has no reason gathers wealth, and whoever has no knowledge is deceived. He advised him to be in it like one who treats a wound, and bears the harshness of the medicine out of fear of the consequence of the disease. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.175}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/mutarrif-ibn-abdallah",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}