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 "id": "person/thabit-ibn-qays",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "thabit-ibn-qays",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ثابت بن قيس بن شماس",
  "en": "Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "خطيب الأنصار؛ خطب لما قدم النبي المدينة فقال: «نمنعك مما نمنع منه أنفسنا وأولادنا، فما لنا؟» قال: «الجنة»، وأول مشاهده أحد، وبشره النبي بالجنة، واستُشهد يوم اليمامة.",
  "en": "The orator of the Ansar; when the Prophet arrived in Medina he spoke, saying 'We will protect you as we protect ourselves and our children; what do we get?', and the Prophet answered 'Paradise'; his first campaign was Uhud, the Prophet gave him the good news of Paradise, and he was killed at al-Yamama."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "ثابت بن قيس بن شماس بن زهير بن مالك بن امرئ القيس الأنصاري الخزرجي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أبو أحمد"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 914 (ص 180).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "ذُكر في كتب الصحابة؛ يُسجَّل ضمن الإطار السني للمتحف (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة، ترجمة 914، ص 180",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-3"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 180, entry 914)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/thabit-ibn-qays|ثابت بن قيس بن شماس]] الأنصاري الخزرجي، «خطيب الأنصار»، يكنى أبا أحمد، وقيل: أبا عبد الرحمن {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخطبة",
     "markdown": "روى ابن السكن عن أنس أن ثابتاً خطب لما قدم رسول الله المدينة فقال: «نمنعك مما نمنع منه أنفسنا وأولادنا، فما لنا؟» قال: «الجنة»، قالوا: «رضينا» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "مشاهده",
     "markdown": "لم يذكره أصحاب المغازي في البدريين، وقالوا: أول مشاهده [[event/battle-of-uhud|أحد]] وشهد ما بعدها، وبشره النبي بالجنة في قصة شهيرة رواها موسى بن أنس عن أبيه، وأصل الحديث عند مسلم {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.180}. وفي الترمذي بإسناد حسن عن أبي هريرة: «نعم الرجل ثابت بن قيس» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "يوم اليمامة",
     "markdown": "روى البخاري مختصراً والطبراني مطولاً عن أنس أنه لما انكشف الناس يوم اليمامة وجد ثابتاً يتحنط، فقال: «ما هكذا كنا نقاتل مع رسول الله، بئس ما عودتم أقرانكم، اللهم إني أبرأ إليك مما جاء به هؤلاء»، ثم قاتل حتى قُتل {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرؤيا والوصية",
     "markdown": "يذكر ابن حجر أنه كان عليه درع نفيسة فأخذها رجل مسلم مرّ به، ثم رآه رجل نائم في منامه فأوصاه أن يخبر خالداً بمكان الدرع وأن يقول لأبي بكر إن عليه ديناً وأن فلاناً عتيق، فاستيقظ الرجل وأخبر خالداً فأُتي بالدرع، وحدّث أبا بكر برؤياه فأجاز وصيته {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.180}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/thabit-ibn-qays",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/thabit-ibn-qays|Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas]] al-Ansari al-Khazraji, \"the Ansar's orator\", kunya Abu Ahmad — or it is said Abu Abd al-Rahman {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The sermon",
     "markdown": "Ibn al-Sakan relates from Anas that Thabit preached when the Messenger of God arrived at Medina, saying: \"we will protect you as we protect ourselves and our children — so what is ours?\" He said: \"Paradise\" — they said: \"we are content\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His battles",
     "markdown": "The maghazi scholars do not name him among the Badriyya; they say his first battle was [[event/battle-of-uhud|Uhud]], and he witnessed all after it. The Prophet gave him glad tidings of Paradise in a famous story Musa ibn Anas related from his father — the hadith's root is in Muslim {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 180}. In al-Tirmidhi with a good chain, from Abu Hurayra: \"what a fine man Thabit ibn Qays is\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The day of al-Yamama",
     "markdown": "Bukhari relates briefly and al-Tabarani at length, from Anas, that when the people were exposed on the day of al-Yamama Thabit was found applying hanut to himself, saying: \"this is not how we fought with the Messenger of God — how ill is what you have accustomed your fellows to! My God, I disclaim to You what these have brought\" — then he fought until he was killed {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 180}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The dream and the bequest",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hajar mentions that he had on a fine coat of mail which a passing Muslim took; then a sleeping man saw him in a dream, and he bequeathed that the man tell Khalid where the mail was, and tell Abu Bakr that he owed a debt and that so-and-so was freed. The man awoke, told Khalid, and the mail was brought; he told Abu Bakr his dream and Abu Bakr carried out the bequest {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 180}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/thabit-ibn-qays",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
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   "to": "group/ansar",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-uhud",
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   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
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  },
  {
   "to": "event/sariyya-of-uyayna-to-banu-tamim",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "orator-of-islam",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  }
 ],
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  "place/medina",
  "person/abu-dujana",
  "person/abu-talha-al-ansari",
  "person/al-bara-ibn-azib",
  "person/al-bara-ibn-malik",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-jamuh",
  "person/fadala-ibn-ubayd",
  "person/hassan-ibn-thabit"
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