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 "id": "work/letter-to-hamdan",
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 "slug": "letter-to-hamdan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كتاب النبي لمخلاف خارف وهمدان",
  "en": "The Prophet's letter to the district of Kharif and Hamdan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كتاب من رسول الله محمد لمخلاف خارف وأهل جناب الهضب وحقاف الرمل مع وافدها ذي المشعار مالك بن النمط ومن أسلم من قومه: أن لهم فراع أرضهم ووهاطها ما أقاموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة، يأكلون علافها ويرعون عافيها، لهم بذلك عهد الله وذمة رسوله، وشاهدهم المهاجرون والأنصار.",
  "en": "A letter from the Messenger of God Muhammad to the district of Kharif and the people of the highland slopes and the sand dunes, with their envoy Dhu al-Mish'ar Malik ibn al-Namat and those of his people who became Muslim: the heights and lowlands of their land are theirs while they pray and pay zakat, to eat its acacia fruit and graze its pasture, under God's pact and the Messenger's protection, with the Muhajirun and Ansar as witnesses."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "zakat-and-sadaqa",
  "water-and-animals"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 630.9991991622005,
  "latest": 631.9985352197195
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0631~",
   "hijri": "0009~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "مرجع النبي من تبوك (ص244).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "charter",
  "genre": [
   "charter"
  ],
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "unverified",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "language": "language/arabic",
  "composed": {
   "edtf": "0631~",
   "hijri": "0009~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "مرجع النبي من تبوك (ص244).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 p. 245",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-9c"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Fable 5.1; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 245"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "كتاب كتبه النبي لوفد [[group/banu-hamdan|همدان]] حين قدموا عليه مع [[person/malik-ibn-al-namt|مالك بن النمط]]؛ انظر [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|وفد همدان]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مضمونه",
     "markdown": "يفتتح بالبسملة ثم: هذا كتاب من رسول الله محمد لمخلاف خارف وأهل جناب الهضب وحقاف الرمل، مع وافدها ذي المشعار مالك بن النمط ومن أسلم من قومه، على أن لهم فراعها ووهاطها ما أقاموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة، يأكلون علافها ويرعون عافيها، لهم بذلك عهد الله وذمة رسوله، وشاهدهم المهاجرون والأنصار. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245} انظر [[concept/hima|الحمى]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "من شرح المحققين",
     "markdown": "«الحقاف» جمع حقف وهو الرمل المستدير، و«الفراع» أعالي الأرض، و«الوهاط» المنخفض المطمئن منها، و«العلاف» ثمر الطلح، و«عافيها» نباتها الكثير. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/letter-to-hamdan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A letter the Prophet wrote for the delegation of [[group/banu-hamdan|Hamdan]] when they came to him with [[person/malik-ibn-al-namt|Malik ibn al-Namt]]. See [[event/delegation-of-hamdan|the delegation of Hamdan]]. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its content",
     "markdown": "It opens with the basmala, then: this is a letter from the Messenger of God, Muhammad, to the districts of Kharif and the people of the slope of al-Hadb and the dunes of sand, with their envoy Dhu al-Mash'ar Malik ibn al-Namt and those of his people who have embraced Islam. Their upland and lowland are theirs for as long as they keep up the prayer and give the alms, eating the fodder and grazing the fresh growth of the land. For this they have the covenant of God and the protection of His Messenger, and the emigrants and the Ansar are witnesses. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245} See [[concept/hima|the hima]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Commentators' glosses",
     "markdown": "\"Al-Hiqaf\" is the plural of \"hiqf\", a round sand dune; \"al-Fira'\" are the high parts of the land; \"al-Wihat\" is the low, level part of it; \"al-Ulaf\" is the fruit of the acacia; \"'afiha\" is its abundant vegetation. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/245}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/letter-to-hamdan",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "group/banu-hamdan",
  "person/malik-ibn-al-namt",
  "person/dimam-ibn-malik-al-salmani",
  "person/malik-ibn-ayfa",
  "person/umayra-ibn-malik-al-kharifi",
  "work/malik-ibn-al-namt-poem",
  "concept/hima"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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