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 "id": "event/death-of-wathiq",
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 "slug": "death-of-wathiq",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وفاة الواثق",
  "en": "Death of al-Wathiq"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مات الواثق بسر من رأى يوم الأربعاء لست بقين من ذي الحجة سنة اثنتين وثلاثين ومئتين، وحكي أنه لما مات ترك وحده واشتغل الناس بالبيعة للمتوكل فجاء جرذون فاستل عينه فأكلها {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 534}.",
  "en": "Al-Wathiq died at Sur man Ra'a on Wednesday, 6 Dhu'l-Hijja 232; when he died he was left alone while the people busied themselves with the bay'a to al-Mutawakkil, and a rat came and plucked out his eye and ate it {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 534}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 847.638828997173,
  "latest": 847.6415669041485
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0847-08-22~",
   "hijri": "0232-12-06",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الأربعاء 6 ذو الحجة 232؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 534}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0847-08-22~",
   "hijri": "0232-12-06",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الأربعاء 6 ذو الحجة 232؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 534}."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "death",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0847-08-22~",
    "hijri": "0232-12-06",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "day",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "الأربعاء 6 ذو الحجة 232؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 534}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 534",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-27"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مات الخليفة [[person/al-wathiq|الواثق]] في [[place/samarra|سر من رأى]] يوم الأربعاء لست بقين من ذي الحجة سنة 232هـ. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حكاية بعد موته",
     "markdown": "يحكي السيوطي أنه تُرك وحده لما مات، وانشغل الناس بالبيعة للمتوكل، فجاء جرذون فاستل عينه فأكلها. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "التاريخ",
     "markdown": "التاريخ الميلادي المقابل (أغسطس 847م تقريباً) محسوب من الهجري، وليس منصوصاً في المصدر. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-wathiq",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The caliph [[person/al-wathiq|al-Wathiq]] died in [[place/samarra|Samarra]] on Wednesday, six nights before the end of Dhu al-Hijja 232 AH. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "A story after his death",
     "markdown": "al-Suyuti relates that he was left alone when he died, and while people were busy with the oath to al-Mutawakkil, a large rat came and pulled out his eye and ate it. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Dating",
     "markdown": "The corresponding Gregorian date (around August 847 CE) is derived from the Hijri date and is not stated in the source. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-wathiq",
    "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": "خلیفہ [[person/al-wathiq|الواثق]] [[place/samarra|سر من رأى]] میں بدھ کے دن ذوالحجہ سنہ 232ھ کی چھ راتیں باقی رہتے فوت ہوئے۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات کے بعد کا واقعہ",
     "markdown": "سیوطی بیان کرتے ہیں کہ جب وہ فوت ہوئے تو انہیں اکیلا چھوڑ دیا گیا، اور لوگ متوکل کی بیعت میں مشغول ہو گئے، تو ایک چوہا آیا اور ان کی آنکھ کھینچ کر کھا گیا۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تاریخ",
     "markdown": "عیسوی تاریخ (تقریباً اگست 847ء) ہجری سے حساب کی گئی ہے، اور مصدر میں منصوص نہیں۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.534}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-wathiq",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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  "building/al-askari-shrine",
  "building/qubbat-al-mazalim-muhtadi",
  "event/abu-faqqas-execution-258",
  "event/ashinas-sultanate-228",
  "event/founding-of-mutawakkiliyya",
  "event/founding-of-samarra",
  "event/killing-of-ahmad-ibn-nasr",
  "event/sallam-sadd-expedition"
 ],
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