{
 "id": "place/nahr-maqil",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "nahr-maqil",
 "label": {
  "ar": "نهر معقل",
  "en": "Nahr Ma'qil"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "نهر معقل من أنهار البصرة؛ سمي بمعقل بن يسار المزني لأن زياداً بعثه ففتحه تبركاً به لصحبته فقال الناس نهر معقل ولم يسمّه أحد نهر زياد مع أنه حفره.",
  "en": "The Ma'qil canal of Basra, named for Ma'qil ibn Yasar whom Ziyad sent to open it for his Companion's blessing — though Ziyad dug it, none called it Ziyad's canal."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "river",
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "extraction_flow": "Apple Vision OCR -> manual extraction"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "نهر معقل من أنهار [[place/basra|البصرة]]. يذكر البلاذري أنه سُمّي باسم [[person/maqil-ibn-yasar|معقل بن يسار المزني]] لأن [[person/ziyad-ibn-abi-sufyan|زياداً]] بعثه ففتحه تبركاً بصحبته، فقال الناس نهر معقل. ولم يسمّه أحد نهر زياد مع أن زياداً حفره. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nahr-maqil",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The River Maqil is one of the rivers of [[place/basra|Basra]]. Al-Baladhuri mentions that it was named after [[person/maqil-ibn-yasar|Maqil ibn Yasar al-Muzani]]. [[person/ziyad-ibn-abi-sufyan|Ziyad]] sent him, and he opened it, seeking blessing through his companionship, and people said \"the River of Maqil\". No one called it the River of Ziyad, although Ziyad dug it. {cite:futuh-buldan-maarif-1407}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/nahr-maqil",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}