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 "id": "work/mutanabbi-kafa-bika-daa",
 "class": "work",
 "slug": "mutanabbi-kafa-bika-daa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "قصيدة المتنبي «كفى بك داء أن ترى الموت شافيا»",
  "en": "Al-Mutanabbi's ode 'It is enough of a sickness that you see death as a cure'"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قصيدة من الطويل على روي الألف يقدّم لها الديوان بأن المتنبي فارق سيف الدولة ورحل إلى دمشق وكاتبه كافور بالمسير إليه، فأنشده إياها في جمادى الآخرة سنة 346هـ ⁦(957م)⁩ {{cite:diwan-mutanabbi-dar-beirut-1983 p.441}}.",
  "en": "An ode in the tawil metre on the rhyme alif; the edition introduces it with the poet's leaving Sayf al-Dawla for Damascus, Kafur's invitation to come to him, and its recital to Kafur in Jumada II 346 AH (957 CE) {{cite:diwan-mutanabbi-dar-beirut-1983 p.441}}."
 },
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 "regions": [],
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  "period/buyid-seljuk-fatimid-era"
 ],
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 "themes": [
  "literature"
 ],
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  "kind": "poem",
  "genre": [
   "poetry"
  ],
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "unverified",
   "sources": [
    "source/diwan-mutanabbi-dar-beirut-1983"
   ]
  },
  "authors": [
   "person/al-mutanabbi"
  ],
  "language": "language/arabic",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ديوان المتنبي، دار بيروت 1403هـ/1983م (ملف ممسوح؛ أرقام الصفحات هي أرقام الملف الموافقة للمطبوع)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "poetry-mutanabbi-3"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/diwan-mutanabbi-dar-beirut-1983"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-mukatabat",
  "concept/diwan-al-insha",
  "concept/hikam-ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "concept/niran-al-arab",
  "concept/poetry-attributed-to-ali",
  "event/delegation-of-banu-tamim",
  "event/jahiz-imamate-works-200",
  "event/kaab-ibn-zuhayr-pardon-and-burda"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}