{
 "id": "concept/salamander",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "salamander",
 "label": {
  "ar": "السمندل",
  "en": "The salamander",
  "ur": "سمندر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "السمندل عند القدماء دابة تقع في النار فلا تحترق وتطفئ ما نزلت فيه، وذكره الدميري من عجائب الدواب وضعف خبره كثير من أهل النقل: سطر من أساطير الطبيعة لا من متن الحديث.",
  "en": "The samandal of the ancients: a creature that falls into fire unburned and quenches what it lands in; al-Damiri lists it among the marvels of beasts while most of the transmitters weaken the tale — a line from the mythology of nature, not the hadith canon.",
  "ur": "قدماء کا سمندر: وہ جاندار جو آگ میں گر کر نہ جلے اور جس چیز پر اترے اسے بجھا دے؛ دمیری نے اسے حیوانات کے عجائبات میں لکھا اور نقّاد نے اس کی خبر کمزور کہی — یہ فطرت کے اساطیر کا صفحہ ہے، حدیث کا متن نہیں۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "living"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [
  "nature-browser",
  "nature-land"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "animals-and-mercy"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "natural",
  "sources": [
   "source/hayat-al-hayawan-damiri",
   "source/ajaib-al-makhluqat-qazwini"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Nature Explorer classical-zoology record (docs/plan/34-nature-browser.md); worded from al-Damiri and al-Qazwini, labelled as tradition",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "nature-browser-6"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "work/hayat-al-hayawan",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "work/ajaib-al-makhluqat",
   "type": "related_to",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/bat",
  "concept/bear",
  "concept/crocodile",
  "concept/heron",
  "concept/peacock",
  "concept/phoenix",
  "concept/turtle",
  "concept/vulture"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}