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  "ar": "عمر يارادوا",
  "en": "Umaru Musa Yar'Adua",
  "ur": "عمر موسی یارادوا"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "سياسي نيجيري (1951–2010) من كاتسينا، درس الكيمياء في جامعة أحمدو بيلو وزاريا وعمل معلّما ومحاضرا ثم في قطاع الشركات، فحكم ولاية كاتسينا عن حزب الشعب الديمقراطي (1999–2007) وفي عهده اعتمدت الولاية الشريعة سنة 2000، ثم صار رئيس نيجيريا في 29 مايو 2007 فمات في منصبه في أبوجا في 5 مايو 2010 ودُفن دفنا إسلاميا في كاتسينا، فخلفه نائبه غودلاك جوناثان.",
  "en": "Nigerian politician (1951–2010) from Katsina who studied chemistry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, worked as a teacher and lecturer and then in business, governed Katsina State for the Peoples Democratic Party (1999–2007) — the state adopted sharia under him in 2000 — and became president of Nigeria on 29 May 2007. He died in office in Abuja on 5 May 2010, received an Islamic burial in Katsina, and was succeeded by his vice-president Goodluck Jonathan.",
  "ur": "نائجریائی سیاست دان (1951ء–2010ء)، کاتسینا سے تعلق؛ احمدو بیلو یونیورسٹی زاریا میں کیمیا پڑھی، مدرس و محاضر رہے پھر کاروبار کیا؛ پیپلز ڈیموکریٹک پارٹی سے ریاست کاتسینا کے گورنر رہے (1999ء–2007ء) — ان کے دور میں ریاست نے 2000 میں شریعت اختیار کی — پھر 29 مئی 2007 کو نائجریا کے صدر بنے؛ 5 مئی 2010 کو ابوجا میں منصب پر وفات پائی اور کاتسینا میں اسلامی طریقے سے دفن ہوئے۔"
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  "earliest": 1951.620430262086,
  "latest": 2010.343059747944
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1951-08-16",
   "hijri": "1370",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 16 August 1951 in Katsina; the Arabic article files him under births of 1370 AH, the Hijri year used here.",
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   "edtf": "2010-05-05",
   "hijri": "1431",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his death at Aso Villa, Abuja, on 5 May 2010; the Arabic article files him under deaths of 1431 AH. The English article records an Islamic burial in Katsina on 6 May 2010.",
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    "value": "عمر موسى يارادوا",
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    "value": "Umaru Yar'Adua",
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   "teacher"
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   "hijri": "1370",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his birth on 16 August 1951 in Katsina; the Arabic article files him under births of 1370 AH, the Hijri year used here.",
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   "note": "The English article and Wikidata give his death at Aso Villa, Abuja, on 5 May 2010; the Arabic article files him under deaths of 1431 AH. The English article records an Islamic burial in Katsina on 6 May 2010.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Thinner than the Khan configuration, unflagged. No consulted text calls Yar'Adua personally a Muslim at all: the English article's religion material is his state government's adoption of sharia in Katsina in August 2000 (a policy decision taken under public pressure from Muslim groups, which counts as neither attestation nor practice of the man) and his Islamic burial in Katsina on 6 May 2010 (funeral practice). The Arabic article files him under 'Nigerian Muslims' (a category filing) and Wikidata gives a single structured value, Islam. No source used names a school or madhhab, so under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
    "sources": [
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Umaru Musa Yar'Adua' (revision 1378276154), Arabic Wikipedia 'عمر يارادوا' (revision 75254577) and Wikidata item Q104705 (item revision 2561110432), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn, and the Wikidata item revision was read from the API itself (its date is internally coherent). Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (yaradua, yar-adua, umaru), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists, and the Arabic label matches no existing record's label. No Urdu article exists for him (Wikidata links the English, Arabic and Hausa articles), so the Urdu prose is written from the English and Arabic articles and Wikidata. No place entity exists for Katsina or Abuja, so no born_in or died_in edge is written; he succeeded Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 and was succeeded by Goodluck Jonathan, but neither has a person record, so no successor_of edge is written.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم والعمل",
     "markdown": "وُلد يارادوا في مدينة كاتسينا شمال نيجيريا في 16 أغسطس 1951. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} درس في جامعة أحمدو بيلو في زاريا من 1972 إلى 1975 فنال البكالوريوس في التربية والكيمياء، ثم عاد إليها سنة 1978 لدراسة الماجستير في الكيمياء التحليلية. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} عمل بعد ذلك معلّما ومحاضرا في كليات في كاتسينا وزاريا أواخر السبعينيات حتى سنة 1983، ثم انتقل إلى قطاع الشركات فأدار مزارع سامبو المحدودة وشارك في مجالس إدارة عدة شركات وبنوك. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حاكم كاتسينا",
     "markdown": "انتُخب يارادوا حاكما لولاية كاتسينا عن حزب الشعب الديمقراطي سنة 1999 وأُعيد انتخابه سنة 2003، فبقي في المنصب حتى 2007. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} وفي أغسطس 2000 انضمت كاتسينا في عهده إلى ولايات شمال نيجيريا التي اعتمدت الشريعة، بعد ضغط عام كبير من جماعات مسلمة في الولاية، واتُّهم هو بإعاقة تطبيقها؛ واتخذت حكومته في المقابل خطوات لاستيعاب السكان غير المسلمين، منها قبول الطلاب المسيحيين في جامعة القلم ورعاية الحجاج المسيحيين كما رعت الحجاج المسلمين. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرئاسة والوفاة",
     "markdown": "فاز يارادوا بانتخابات 21 أبريل 2007 وأدى اليمين رئيسا في 29 مايو 2007 ونائبه غودلاك جوناثان. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} عانى المرض في سنوات رئاسته وسافر للعلاج في الخارج مرارا، ومات في مقر الرئاسة (أبوفيلا) بأبوجا في 5 مايو 2010، فخلفه جوناثان. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} {cite:wikidata-umaru-musa-yaradua} وأقيمت له جنازة إسلامية ودُفن في مدينته كاتسينا في 6 مايو 2010. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة عن الدين في المصادر",
     "markdown": "لا تسمّي المصادر المستعملة هنا مذهبا ليارادوا؛ فالمقالة الإنجليزية لا تصفه شخصيا بأنه مسلم، ومادتها الدينية هي قرار ولايته اعتماد الشريعة سنة 2000 ودفنه الإسلامي، وتصنّفه المقالة العربية ضمن «مسلمين نيجيريين»، ويعطي ويكي بيانات قيمة واحدة هي «الإسلام». لذلك تُركت قيمة دينه في سجله غير مصنّفة (unknown). {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-ar} {cite:wikidata-umaru-musa-yaradua}"
    },
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life, education and work",
     "markdown": "Yar'Adua was born in the city of Katsina in northern Nigeria on 16 August 1951. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} He attended Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria from 1972 to 1975, obtaining a bachelor's degree in Education and Chemistry, and returned in 1978 for a master's degree in Analytical Chemistry. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} He then worked as a teacher and lecturer in colleges in Katsina and Zaria in the late 1970s until 1983, before moving into business, managing Sambo Farms Ltd and serving on the boards of several companies and a bank. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Governor of Katsina",
     "markdown": "Yar'Adua was elected governor of Katsina State for the Peoples Democratic Party in 1999 and re-elected in 2003, remaining in office until 2007. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} In August 2000 Katsina under him joined the northern Nigerian states adopting sharia, after significant public pressure from Muslim groups in the state, with Yar'Adua himself accused of impeding its implementation; his government also took steps to accommodate the non-Muslim population, admitting Christian students to Al-Qalam University and sponsoring Christian pilgrims as it did Muslim pilgrims. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Presidency and death",
     "markdown": "Yar'Adua won the election of 21 April 2007 and was sworn in as president on 29 May 2007, with Goodluck Jonathan as his vice-president. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} He was ill during his presidency and travelled abroad for treatment repeatedly; he died at the presidential residence, Aso Villa, in Abuja on 5 May 2010, and Jonathan succeeded him. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} {cite:wikidata-umaru-musa-yaradua} An Islamic burial took place in his hometown of Katsina on 6 May 2010. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "A note on religion in the sources",
     "markdown": "The sources used here name no school for Yar'Adua: the English article does not call him personally a Muslim, and its religion material is his state's adoption of sharia in 2000 and his Islamic burial; the Arabic article files him under \"Nigerian Muslims\", and Wikidata gives a single value, Islam. His faith value is therefore left unclassified (unknown) in his record. {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-ar} {cite:wikidata-umaru-musa-yaradua}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "زندگی و منصب",
     "markdown": "انھوں نے احمدو بیلو یونیورسٹی زاریا میں کیمیا پڑھی اور مدرس و محاضر رہے، پھر کاروبار کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-ar} گورنر کے طور پر ان کے دور میں ریاست کاتسینا نے اگست 2000 میں شریعت اختیار کی۔ {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} صدر بننے کے بعد بیماری کا سامنا رہا؛ 5 مئی 2010 کو ابوجا میں وفات پائی، کاتسینا میں اسلامی طریقے سے دفن ہوئے اور نائب صدر گڈلک جوناتھن ان کے جانشین بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-umaru-musa-yaradua-en} {cite:wikidata-umaru-musa-yaradua}\n\nمصادر میں ان کا کوئی مذہبی مکتب مذکور نہیں، اس لیے سجل میں ان کا دین غیر مصنف (unknown) رکھا گیا ہے۔ {cite:wikidata-umaru-musa-yaradua}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ماخذ",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
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