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 "id": "event/jarrah-khurasan-justice-letter",
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 "slug": "jarrah-khurasan-justice-letter",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كتاب الجراح ورد عمر بن عبد العزيز",
  "en": "The letter of al-Jarrah and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's reply"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "كتب الجراح بن عبد الله إلى عمر بن عبد العزيز أن أهل خراسان قوم ساءت رعيتهم وإنه لا يصلحهم إلا السيف والسوط فإن رأى أمير المؤمنين أن يأذن له في ذلك، فكتب إليه عمر أما بعد فقد بلغني كتابك تذكر أن أهل خراسان قد ساءت رعيتهم وأنه لا يصلحهم إلا السيف والسوط فقد كذبت بل يصلحهم العدل والحق فابسط ذلك فيهم والسلام {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 393}.",
  "en": "Al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah wrote to Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz that the people of Khurasan were unruly subjects whom only the sword and the whip would set right, asking permission to apply them; Umar wrote back: 'Your letter reached me saying Khurasan's people are unruly and only sword and whip will mend them — you lie; justice and truth will mend them. Spread those among them, and peace' {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 393}."
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0717/0720",
   "hijri": "0099~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "في خلافة عمر بن عبد العزيز؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 393}."
  },
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   "edtf": "0717/0720",
   "hijri": "0099~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "في خلافة عمر بن عبد العزيز؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 393}."
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    "edtf": "0717/0720",
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    "precision": "year",
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    "derived": true,
    "note": "في خلافة عمر بن عبد العزيز؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 393}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 393",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-11"
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  "sources": [
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تنقل المصادر مراسلة بين [[person/al-jarrah-ibn-abdallah-al-hakami|الجراح بن عبد الله]] و[[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|عمر بن عبد العزيز]] في شأن أهل خراسان. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الكتاب",
     "markdown": "كتب الجراح أن أهل خراسان ساءت رعيتهم، وأنه لا يصلحهم إلا السيف والسوط، وطلب الإذن في ذلك. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرد",
     "markdown": "ردّ عمر بأن العدل والحق هما ما يصلحهم، وأمره ببسطهما فيهم. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/jarrah-khurasan-justice-letter",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The sources transmit a correspondence between [[person/al-jarrah-ibn-abdallah-al-hakami|al-Jarrah ibn Abd Allah]] and [[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz]] about the people of Khurasan. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The letter",
     "markdown": "Al-Jarrah wrote that the people of Khurasan had become badly governed, and that nothing would set them right but the sword and the whip, and asked for leave to do so. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The reply",
     "markdown": "Umar replied that justice and right are what would set them right, and ordered him to spread them among them. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/jarrah-khurasan-justice-letter",
    "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": "مصادر میں [[person/al-jarrah-ibn-abdallah-al-hakami|جراح بن عبد اللہ]] اور [[person/umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz|عمر بن عبد العزیز]] کے درمیان خراسان کے لوگوں کے بارے میں ایک خط و کتابت منقول ہے۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "خط",
     "markdown": "جراح نے لکھا کہ خراسان کی رعایا بگڑ گئی ہے، اور انہیں تلوار اور کوڑے کے سوا کوئی درست نہیں کر سکتا، اور انہوں نے اس کی اجازت مانگی۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جواب",
     "markdown": "عمر نے جواب دیا کہ انہیں عدل اور حق ہی درست کرتے ہیں، اور انہیں حکم دیا کہ ان میں یہی دونوں چیزیں پھیلائیں۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.393}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/jarrah-khurasan-justice-letter",
    "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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 "related": [
  "event/jarrah-governorship-armenia",
  "event/umar-ii-transoxania-dawa",
  "event/building-of-masisa",
  "event/dar-al-imara-saga",
  "event/death-of-al-jarrah",
  "event/death-of-umar-ibn-abd-al-aziz",
  "event/expulsion-of-najran",
  "event/founding-of-ramla"
 ],
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 }
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