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 "id": "event/death-of-abu-al-abbas-al-saffah",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "death-of-abu-al-abbas-al-saffah",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وفاة أبي العباس السفاح",
  "en": "The Death of Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة ست وثلاثين ومائة قدم أبو مسلم على أبي العباس بعد انقضاء الموسم {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}، وذكر الطبري موت أبي العباس السفاح، ومدة خلافته {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}، وعند السيوطي مات بالجدري في ذي الحجة سنة ست وثلاثين ومئة وكان قد عهد لأخيه أبي جعفر، وفي سنة أربع وثلاثين كان قد انتقل إلى الأنبار وصيرها دار الخلافة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 419}",
  "en": "In the year 136 Abu Muslim came to Abu al-Abbas after the pilgrimage season had ended {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}, and al-Tabari mentions the death of Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah and the length of his caliphate {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}. According to al-Suyuti he died of smallpox in Dhu al-Hijja of the year 136, having designated his brother Abu Ja'far as successor; in the year 134 he had moved to al-Anbar and made it the seat of the caliphate {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 419}"
 },
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 "wings": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "death",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "hijri": "0136",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "فهرس الجزء السابع ص667",
    "sources": [
     "source/tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl"
    ]
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl",
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Claude (Haiku 5.5) from Apple Vision OCR of Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk (Dar al-Ma'arif), batch 4",
   "sources": [
    "source/tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl"
   ]
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "body pages read; Claude (Haiku 5.5)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ذكر الطبري موت أبي العباس السفاح ومدة خلافته في أخبار سنة 136هـ. {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470} وفي تلك السنة قدم أبو مسلم عليه بعد انقضاء الموسم. {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عند السيوطي",
     "markdown": "مات بالجدري في ذي الحجة سنة 136هـ، وكان قد عهد لأخيه أبي جعفر. وفي سنة 134هـ كان قد انتقل إلى الأنبار وجعلها دار الخلافة. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 419}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-abu-al-abbas-al-saffah",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "al-Tabari reports the death of Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah and the length of his caliphate, in the events of 136 AH. {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470} In that year Abu Muslim came to him after the season had ended. {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "al-Suyuti's account",
     "markdown": "He died of smallpox in Dhu al-Hijja 136 AH, and had designated his brother Abu Ja'far as successor. In 134 AH he had moved to al-Anbar and made it the seat of the caliphate. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 419}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-abu-al-abbas-al-saffah",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "طبری نے ابو العباس السفاح کی وفات اور ان کے دورِ خلافت کی مدت سنہ 136ھ کے واقعات میں ذکر کی ہے۔ {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470} اسی سال ابو مسلم موسم حج ختم ہونے کے بعد ان کے پاس آیا۔ {cite:tabari-tarikh-abu-al-fadl j.7 p.470}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیوطی کے ہاں",
     "markdown": "وہ ذوالحجہ سنہ 136ھ میں چیچک سے فوت ہوئے، اور انہوں نے اپنے بھائی ابو جعفر کو ولی عہد بنایا تھا۔ سنہ 134ھ میں وہ انبار کی طرف منتقل ہو گئے اور اسے دار الخلافہ بنا دیا۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 419}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-abu-al-abbas-al-saffah",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}