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 "id": "person/tawus-ibn-kaysan",
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 "slug": "tawus-ibn-kaysan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "طاوس بن كيسان",
  "en": "Tawus ibn Kaysan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فقيه اليمن، كتب إلى عمر بن عبد العزيز حين استخلف إن أردت أن يكون عملك خيراً كله فاستعمل أهل الخير فقال عمر كفى بها موعظة {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 173}.، وتوفي سنة أربع ومائة وقيل مات بمكة سنة ست ومائة وصلى عليه هشام بن عبد الملك {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 191}",
  "en": "Yemen's jurist — his one-line counsel to the new caliph: 'if you want all your work to be good, employ the people of good' {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 173}."
 },
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الدار الإفريقية/دار التحرير) ج2 ص 173",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-61"
  },
  "sources": [
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   "source/bakr-umayyad-state-1134715"
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "طاوس بن كيسان فقيه اليمن. يروي المسعودي أنه كتب إلى [[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|عمر بن عبد العزيز]] حين استُخلف: إن أردت أن يكون عملك خيراً كله فاستعمل أهل الخير. فقال عمر: كفى بها موعظة. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.173}\n\nوتوفي سنة 104هـ، وقيل بمكة سنة 106هـ، وصلى عليه هشام بن عبد الملك. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.191}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/tawus-ibn-kaysan",
    "lang": "ar",
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   }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Tawus ibn Kaysan, jurist of Yemen. al-Mas'udi reports that when [[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz]] was made caliph, he wrote to him: \"If you want your work to be entirely good, appoint people of goodness.\" Umar said: \"That is sufficient as an admonition\" {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.173}.\n\nHe died in the year 104 AH, and it is said in Mecca in the year 106 AH. Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik led the funeral prayer over him {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.191}."
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/tawus-ibn-kaysan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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 "related": [
  "person/muhammad",
  "passage/muwatta-kitab-01-salat",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-abbas",
  "person/muslim-ibn-al-hajjaj",
  "passage/muwatta-kitab-03-zakat",
  "person/ibn-abd-al-barr",
  "person/muadh-ibn-jabal",
  "place/yemen"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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