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 "id": "event/death-of-al-mahdi",
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 "slug": "death-of-al-mahdi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وفاة المهدي",
  "en": "Death of al-Mahdi"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة تسع وستين ومئة مات المهدي؛ ساق خلف صيد فاقتحم الصيد خربة وتبعه الفرس فدق ظهره في بابها فمات لوقته وذلك لثمان بقين من المحرم، وقيل إنه مات مسموماً {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}.",
  "en": "In year 169 al-Mahdi died: chasing game, the quarry burst into a ruin and his horse followed, breaking his back in its doorway — he died on the spot, on the eighth of Muharram; others say he died poisoned {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
 },
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  "latest": 785.6663038939566
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0785-08~",
   "hijri": "0169-01-08",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "8 محرم 169؛ رواية السم بديلة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0785-08~",
   "hijri": "0169-01-08",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "8 محرم 169؛ رواية السم بديلة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
  }
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 "data": {
  "kind": "death",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0785-08~",
    "hijri": "0169-01-08",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "day",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "8 محرم 169؛ رواية السم بديلة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 443",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-17"
  },
  "sources": [
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "في سنة 169هـ، لثمان بقين من المحرم، مات [[person/al-mahdi|المهدي]]. ساق خلف صيد، فاقتحم الصيد خربة وتبعه الفرس، فدقّ ظهره في بابها فمات لوقته. وقيل إنه مات مسموماً. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة",
     "markdown": "الرواية الثانية، رواية السم، ينقلها السيوطي بصيغة «قيل». والخبر من مصدر واحد، ويحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-al-mahdi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 169 AH, eight nights before the end of Muharram, [[person/al-mahdi|al-Mahdi]] died. He rode in pursuit of game, the game ran into a ruin and he followed it, and his back struck the doorway, and he died instantly. It is also said that he died poisoned. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Note",
     "markdown": "The second account, the poison account, is related by al-Suyuti with the phrase \"it is said\". The report comes from a single source and needs an additional source."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-al-mahdi",
    "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": "سنہ 169ھ میں محرم کی اٹھارہ تاریخ کو [[person/al-mahdi|مہدی]] فوت ہوئے۔ وہ ایک شکار کے پیچھے تھے، تو شکار ایک ویران جگہ میں گھس گیا اور گھوڑا اس کے پیچھے گیا، تو اس کی پیٹھ اس کے دروازے سے ٹکرائی اور وہ اسی وقت مر گئے۔ کہا گیا ہے کہ وہ زہر دیے جانے سے مرے۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 443}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نوٹ",
     "markdown": "دوسری روایت، یعنی زہر کی روایت، سیوطی «قیل» کے الفاظ سے نقل کرتے ہیں۔ یہ خبر ایک ہی مصدر سے ہے، اس کے لیے اضافی مصدر درکار ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-al-mahdi",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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  "event/al-sila-canal",
  "event/captives-of-samalu",
  "event/conquest-of-marash",
  "event/deposition-of-isa-ibn-musa",
  "event/execution-of-salih-ibn-abd-al-quddus",
  "event/founding-of-al-hadath",
  "event/founding-of-baghdad",
  "event/founding-of-muhammadiyya-rayy"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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