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 "slug": "sasaa-ibn-suhan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صعصعة بن صوحان العبدي",
  "en": "Sa'sa'a ibn Suhan al-'Abdi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "خطيب عبد القيس من خواص علي وصفه معاوية بأنه أحد سهام علي وخطباء العرب، بعثه علي بكتابه إلى معاوية فحاوره في أنساب مضر وربيعة وعبد القيس حتى قال له ويحك ما تركت لقريش مجداً فأجاب بلى تركت لهم ما لا يصلح إلا بهم ثم فسرها ببني هاشم، وسأله ابن عباس عن السؤدد والمروءة والحكيم والفارس فوصفها بأجمع ما قيل فيها حتى قال أنت يا ابن صوحان باقر علم العرب، وشرك أبا أيوب الأنصاري في قتل عبد الله بن وهب الراسبي يوم النهروان {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}.",
  "en": "'Abd al-Qays's orator and one of Ali's 'arrows' — Mu'awiya called him a shaft of Ali and a khatib of the Arabs; his genealogy-riddle exchange at court, his definitions of leadership, manliness, wisdom and knighthood for Ibn Abbas ('you are the deep-sea of Arab learning'), and his share in Ibn Wahb's death at Nahrawan {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}."
 },
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  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 39–48",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-47"
  },
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   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
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   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "صعصعة بن صوحان العبدي خطيب من عبد القيس، من خاصة [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي]]. وصفه [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاوية]] بأنه من سهام علي وخطباء العرب. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "من أخباره",
     "markdown": "بعثه علي بكتابه إلى معاوية، فحاوره في أنساب مضر وربيعة وعبد القيس. وسأله ابن عباس عن السؤدد والمروءة والحكيم والفارس، فأجابه بأجمع ما قيل فيها، حتى قال له ابن عباس إنه باقر علم العرب. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}\n\nوتذكر الرواية أنه شارك [[person/abu-ayyub-al-ansari|أبا أيوب الأنصاري]] في قتل عبد الله بن وهب الراسبي يوم النهروان. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/sasaa-ibn-suhan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sasa'a ibn Suhan al-Abdi, an orator from Abd al-Qays, one of the close companions of [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|Ali]]. [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|Mu'awiya]] described him as one of the arrows of Ali and one of the orators of the Arabs {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Some of his reports",
     "markdown": "Ali sent him with his letter to Mu'awiya, and he debated with him about the genealogies of Mudar, Rabi'a and Abd al-Qays. Ibn Abbas asked him about nobility, manliness, the wise man and the horseman, and he answered with the most comprehensive things that had been said on them, to the point that Ibn Abbas told him he was a scholar of the Arabs' learning {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}.\n\nThe report says that he took part with [[person/abu-ayyub-al-ansari|Abu Ayyub al-Ansari]] in killing Abd Allah ibn Wahb al-Rasibi on the day of al-Nahrawan {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 39-48}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sasaa-ibn-suhan",
    "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"
 }
}