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 "id": "person/sufyan-ibn-mujib",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "sufyan-ibn-mujib",
 "label": {
  "ar": "سفيان بن مجيب الأزدي",
  "en": "Sufyan ibn Mujib al-Azdi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أزدي؛ وجّهه معاوية بن أبي سفيان إلى أطرابلس في خلافة عثمان فبنى في مرج على أميال منها حصناً سمّي حصن سفيان وقطع المادة عن أهلها وحاصرهم حتى اجتمعوا في أحد حصونهم الثلاثة وكتبوا إلى ملك الروم فأرسل إليهم مراكب ركبوها ليلاً وهربوا، فأصبح سفيان فوجد الحصن خالياً فدخله وكتب بالفتح إلى معاوية فأسكنه جماعة كبيرة من اليهود وهو الذي فيه الميناء؛ وكان معاوية يوجّه إليها كل عام جماعة من الجند يشحنها بهم ويوليها عاملاً فإذا انغلق البحر قفلوا وبقي العامل في جماعة يسيرة، حتى نقضها أهلها أيام عبد الملك فسكنها بطريق رومي ثم قُتل هو وعاملها وقيل أُسر فقُتل وصُلب.",
  "en": "An Azdi; Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan sent him to Tripoli in Uthman's caliphate, where he built a fortress in a meadow some miles off called Hisn Sufyan, cut the people's supplies and besieged them until they gathered in one of their three strongholds and wrote to the Roman king, who sent ships they boarded by night and fled — Sufyan finding the stronghold empty at dawn, entering it and writing the conquest to Mu'awiya, who settled a great company of Jews in it, it being the one holding the port today; Mu'awiya used to send a company of troops each year to garrison it under an agent who stayed with a small party when the sea closed, until its people broke faith in Abd al-Malik's days and a Byzantine patrician occupied it, was killed — or captured and crucified — with his agent."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "سفيان بن مجيب الأزدي"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "commander"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 173–174",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-9"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "سفيان بن مجيب الأزدي قائد وجّهه معاوية بن أبي سفيان إلى أطرابلس في خلافة عثمان. وتتصل مهمته بـ[[event/conquest-of-syria|فتح الشام]]. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.173-174}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أطرابلس",
     "markdown": "يروي البلاذري أنه بنى في مرج على أميال منها حصناً سُمّي حصن سفيان، وقطع المادة عن أهلها وحاصرهم، حتى اجتمعوا في أحد حصونهم الثلاثة وكتبوا إلى ملك الروم. فأرسل إليهم مراكب ركبوها ليلاً وهربوا، فأصبح سفيان فوجد الحصن خالياً فدخله وكتب بالفتح إلى معاوية. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.173-174}\n\nأسكن معاوية فيها جماعة كبيرة من اليهود، وكان يوجّه إليها كل عام جنداً ويولّي عليها عاملاً. ثم نقضها أهلها أيام عبد الملك، فسكنها بطريق رومي، وقيل إنه قُتل هو وعاملها، وقيل أُسر فقُتل وصُلب. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.173-174}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sufyan-ibn-mujib",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sufyan ibn Mujib al-Azdi, a commander whom Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan sent to Tripoli in the caliphate of Uthman. His mission is connected to [[event/conquest-of-syria|the conquest of Syria]] {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.173-174}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Tripoli",
     "markdown": "al-Baladhuri reports that he built a fortress in a meadow a few miles from the city, which was named the Fortress of Sufyan. He cut off supplies to its people and besieged them, until they gathered in one of their three fortresses and wrote to the king of the Byzantines. He sent them ships, in which they sailed by night and fled. In the morning Sufyan found the fortress empty, entered it, and wrote to Mu'awiya announcing the conquest {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.173-174}.\n\nMu'awiya settled a large number of Jews there, and each year he sent troops to it and appointed an agent over it. Later its people broke the treaty in the days of Abd al-Malik, and a Byzantine patrician settled in it. It is said that he and its agent were killed, and it is said that he was captured and killed and crucified {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407 p.173-174}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sufyan-ibn-mujib",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
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  {
   "to": "event/conquest-of-syria",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/battle-of-ajnadayn",
  "event/battle-of-al-araba",
  "event/battle-of-dathin",
  "event/battle-of-fihl",
  "event/battle-of-marj-al-suffar",
  "event/battle-of-yarmuk",
  "event/conquest-of-antioch",
  "event/conquest-of-busra"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}