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 "id": "event/jahiz-mutawakkil-audience",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "jahiz-mutawakkil-audience",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجاحظ يُعرض على المتوكل مؤدباً فيصرفه",
  "en": "al-Jahiz presented to al-Mutawakkil as tutor, then dismissed",
  "ur": "جاحظ متوکل کے سامنے مؤدب کے طور پر پیش کیے گئے پھر واپس کر دیے گئے"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في خلافة المتوكل ⁦(٢٣٢–٢٤٧هـ/٨٤٧–٨٦١م)⁩ ذُكر الجاحظ للخليفة ليؤدب بعض ولده، فلما رآه استبشع منظره، فأمر له بعشرة آلاف درهم وصرفه {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487} {cite:wafayat-ayan p. 404}؛ ويروي الجاحظ نفسه مقابلة يزعم أنه أجراها مع المتوكل، الذي كان يريد أن يعهد إليه بتعليم أولاده ثم صرفه لقبح منظره {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 385}.",
  "en": "In al-Mutawakkil's caliphate (232-247/847-861) al-Jahiz was mentioned to the caliph as a tutor for one of his sons; when the caliph saw him he was repelled by his looks, granted him ten thousand dirhams and dismissed him {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487} {cite:wafayat-ayan p. 404}. Al-Jahiz himself records an interview he claims to have had with al-Mutawakkil, who was anxious to entrust him with the education of his children but finally dismissed him because of his ugliness {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 385}.",
  "ur": "متوکل کے دور خلافت ⁦(232-247ھ/847-861ء)⁩ میں جاحظ کا نام خلیفہ کے سامنے ان کے ایک بیٹے کے مؤدب کے طور پر آیا؛ جب خلیفہ نے انہیں دیکھا تو ان کے منظر سے نفرت کی، دس ہزار درہم عنایت کر کے واپس کر دیا {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487} {cite:wafayat-ayan p. 404}۔ جاحظ نے خود ایک ملاقات بیان کی ہے جس میں متوکل ان سے بچوں کی تعلیم سپرد کرنا چاہتا تھا مگر آخر میں بدصورتی کے سبب انہیں واپس کر دیا {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 385}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 847.0008966645448,
  "latest": 862.0018891558032
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0847/0861",
   "hijri": "0232",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الحادثة في خلافة المتوكل (٢٣٢–٢٤٧هـ) بلا سنة محددة في المصادر {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487}؛ التحويل مشتق."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0847/0861",
   "hijri": "0232",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "الحادثة في خلافة المتوكل (٢٣٢–٢٤٧هـ) بلا سنة محددة في المصادر {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487}؛ التحويل مشتق."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "gathering",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0847/0861",
    "hijri": "0232",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "الحادثة في خلافة المتوكل (٢٣٢–٢٤٧هـ) بلا سنة محددة في المصادر {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487}؛ التحويل مشتق."
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab",
   "source/wafayat-ayan",
   "source/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Muruj al-Dhahab of al-Mas'udi (Dar al-Ifriqiyya/Dar al-Tahrir) vol. 2 pp. 486-487; Wafayat al-A'yan of Ibn Khallikan, Apple Vision OCR p. 404 (books/tareekh/wafayat-ayan/AAlexandrina-224013); Encyclopaedia of Islam 2nd ed. vol. 2, printed p. 385",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
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   "run": "explorer-jahiz-1"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ذُكر الجاحظ للمتوكل ليؤدب بعض ولده، فلما رآه الخليفة استبشع منظره، فأمر له بعشرة آلاف درهم وصرفه {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487} {cite:wafayat-ayan p. 404}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "رواية الجاحظ نفسه",
     "markdown": "يروي الجاحظ عن نفسه مقابلة يزعم أنها جرت بينه وبين المتوكل، الذي كان يريد أن يعهد إليه بتعليم أولاده ثم صرفه لقبح منظره. وتقع القصة في خلافة المتوكل ⁦(٢٣٢–٢٤٧هـ/٨٤٧–٨٦١م)⁩، وكانت إقامة الجاحظ آنئذ بين بغداد وسرّ من رأى {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 385}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/jahiz-mutawakkil-audience",
    "lang": "ar",
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    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-06"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-Jahiz was mentioned to al-Mutawakkil as a tutor for one of his sons; when the caliph saw him he was repelled by his looks, granted him ten thousand dirhams and dismissed him {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487} {cite:wafayat-ayan p. 404}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Al-Jahiz's own account",
     "markdown": "Al-Jahiz himself records an interview he claims to have had with al-Mutawakkil, who was anxious to entrust him with the education of his children but finally dismissed him because of his ugliness. The story falls within al-Mutawakkil's caliphate (232-247/847-861), when al-Jahiz was dividing his residence between Baghdad and Samarra {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 385}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/jahiz-mutawakkil-audience",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "جاحظ کا نام خلیفہ متوکل کے سامنے ان کے ایک بیٹے کے مؤدب کے طور پر آیا؛ جب خلیفہ نے انہیں دیکھا تو ان کے منظر سے نفرت کی، دس ہزار درہم عنایت کر کے واپس کر دیا {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 486-487} {cite:wafayat-ayan p. 404}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خود جاحظ کی روایت",
     "markdown": "جاحظ نے خود ایک ملاقات بیان کی ہے جس میں متوکل ان سے بچوں کی تعلیم سپرد کرنا چاہتا تھا مگر آخر میں بدصورتی کے سبب انہیں واپس کر دیا۔ یہ واقعہ متوکل کے دور خلافت (232-247ھ/847-861ء) میں ہے، جب جاحظ کا قیام بغداد اور سامرا کے درمیان بٹا ہوا تھا {cite:encyclopaedia-of-islam-2 vol. 2 p. 385}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/jahiz-mutawakkil-audience",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  }
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
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   "role": "المعروض مؤدباً",
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   "to": "person/al-wathiq",
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  "event/death-of-wathiq",
  "event/jahiz-zayyat-fall-233",
  "person/al-mutawakkil",
  "person/al-wathiq",
  "place/samarra",
  "event/founding-of-mutawakkiliyya",
  "event/jahiz-final-years-basra",
  "event/killing-of-yusuf-al-marwazi"
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