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 "id": "person/zura-dhu-yazan",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "zura-dhu-yazan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "زرعة ذو يزن",
  "en": "Zur'a Dhu Yazan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من ملوك حمير، بعث مالك بن مرة الرهاوي إلى النبي بإسلامهم ومفارقتهم الشرك، وخاطبه النبي في كتابه بالوصية برسله وأميرهم معاذ بن جبل، وبشّره لأنه أسلم من أول حمير.",
  "en": "A Himyarite king who sent Malik ibn Murra al-Rahawi to the Prophet with news of their Islam and separation from idolatry; the Prophet's letter addresses him, commending the envoys under Mu'adh ibn Jabal and congratulating him for being the first of Himyar to convert."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "زرعة ذو يزن"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "politician"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "ruler",
    "toward": "group/himyar",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "من ملوك حمير وأقيالها (ابن هشام ص235).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "كتب بإسلامه مقدم النبي من تبوك (ابن هشام ص235).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0631~"
    },
    "note": "أعلن إسلامه في كتاب ملوك حمير (ابن هشام ص235).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 235-237",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9b"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa",
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 235-237"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "زرعة ذو يزن من ملوك حمير وأقيالها. بعث مالك بن مرة الرهاوي إلى [[person/muhammad|النبي]] بإسلامهم ومفارقتهم الشرك. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nوخاطبه النبي في كتابه بالوصية برسله وأميرهم [[person/muadh-ibn-jabal|معاذ بن جبل]]، وبشّره لأنه أسلم من أول [[group/himyar|حمير]]. ورد في [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|كتاب ملوك حمير]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/zura-dhu-yazan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Zur'a Dhu Yazan, one of the kings and lords of Himyar. Malik ibn Murra al-Rahawi was sent by him to [[person/muhammad|the Prophet]] with the news of their Islam and their renunciation of idolatry {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}.\n\nThe Prophet wrote to him, enjoining the good treatment of his envoys and of their amir [[person/muadh-ibn-jabal|Mu'adh ibn Jabal]], and gave him good tidings because he was the first of the [[group/himyar|Himyar]] to embrace Islam. He appears in [[event/letter-of-himyar-kings|the letter of the kings of Himyar]] {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/zura-dhu-yazan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
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  {
   "to": "group/himyar",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/letter-of-himyar-kings",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "من أصحاب الكتاب",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "work/letter-to-the-kings-of-himyar",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/letter-of-himyar-kings",
  "group/himyar",
  "work/letter-to-the-kings-of-himyar",
  "person/al-harith-ibn-abd-kulal",
  "person/al-numan-qayl-dhi-ruayn",
  "person/malik-ibn-murra-al-rahawi",
  "person/nuaym-ibn-abd-kulal",
  "event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}