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 "id": "person/yaqub-ibn-al-sukayt",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "yaqub-ibn-al-sukayt",
 "label": {
  "ar": "يعقوب بن السكيت"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "إمام العربية، ندبه المتوكل إلى تعليم أولاده فسأله سنة أربع وأربعين من أحب إليك المعتز والمؤيد أم الحسن والحسين فقال قنبر مولى علي خير منهما فأمر الأتراك فداسوا بطنه حتى مات، وقيل أمر بسل لسانه فمات وأرسل إلى ابنه بديته {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}.",
  "en": "The imam of Arabic, tutor to al-Mutawakkil's sons; asked in 244 'who is dearer — al-Mu'tazz and al-Mu'ayyad or al-Hasan and al-Husayn?' he answered 'Qanbar, Ali's mawla, is better than both' — the Turks trampled his belly till he died; or his tongue was torn out and the blood-money sent to his son {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
 },
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 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "gender": "male",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 538–544",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-28"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يعقوب بن السكيت إمام في العربية، ندبه المتوكل إلى تعليم أولاده. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "يذكر السيوطي أن [[person/al-mutawakkil|المتوكل]] سأله سنة 244هـ: أيهما أحب إليك، المعتز والمؤيد أم الحسن والحسين؟ فقال: قنبر مولى علي خير منهما. فأمر الأتراك فداسوا بطنه حتى مات. وقيل إنه أمر بسل لسانه فمات، وأرسل إلى ابنه ديته. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/yaqub-ibn-al-sukayt",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Yaqub ibn al-Sikkit, an imam in Arabic, whom [[person/al-mutawakkil|al-Mutawakkil]] appointed to teach his sons {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His death",
     "markdown": "al-Suyuti reports that al-Mutawakkil asked him in the year 244 AH: \"Which of them do you love more, al-Mu'tazz and al-Mu'ayyad, or al-Hasan and al-Husayn?\" He answered: \"Qanbar, the client of Ali, is better than both of them.\" So he ordered the Turks to trample his belly until he died. It is also said that he ordered his tongue cut out, and he died, and he sent his blood-money to his son {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 541}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/yaqub-ibn-al-sukayt",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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   "to": "person/al-mutawakkil",
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   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/al-mufarraj-fortresses",
  "event/al-qummi-buja-war",
  "event/bugha-pacification-armenia",
  "event/conquest-of-barah",
  "event/demolition-of-husayn-tomb",
  "event/founding-of-mutawakkiliyya",
  "event/ghiyar-decree-235",
  "event/mutawakkil-damascus-residence"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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