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 "id": "event/mahdi-barid-hijaz",
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 "slug": "mahdi-barid-hijaz",
 "label": {
  "ar": "إقامة البريد من الحجاز إلى العراق",
  "en": "Establishment of the barid from the Hijaz to Iraq"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في سنة ست وستين ومئة تحول المهدي إلى قصر السلام وأمر فأقيم له البريد من المدينة النبوية ومن اليمن ومكة إلى الحضرة بغالاً وإبلاً، قال الذهبي وهو أول ما عمل البريد من الحجاز إلى العراق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 442}.",
  "en": "In year 166 al-Mahdi moved to Qasr al-Salam and ordered a barid relay established for him from the Prophet's Medina and from Yemen and Mecca to the capital, by mule and camel; per al-Dhahabi it was the first barid worked from the Hijaz to Iraq {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 442}."
 },
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 "wings": [
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 "regions": [
  "arabia",
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 782.0002464116305,
  "latest": 782.9995824691498
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0782~",
   "hijri": "0166",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "166؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 442}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0782~",
   "hijri": "0166",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "166؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 442}."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "founding",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0782~",
    "hijri": "0166",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "166؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 442}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 442",
   "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 166هـ انتقل [[person/al-mahdi|المهدي]] إلى قصر السلام، وأمر بإقامة البريد من المدينة النبوية ومن اليمن ومكة إلى الحضرة، بغالاً وإبلاً. ينقل السيوطي عن الذهبي أنه أول ما عُمل البريد من الحجاز إلى العراق. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.442}\n\nالتحويل إلى التقويم الميلادي مشتق وتقريبي. المكان في بيانات الحدث: [[place/baghdad|بغداد]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mahdi-barid-hijaz",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "In 166 AH [[person/al-mahdi|al-Mahdi]] moved to the Palace of Peace and ordered the postal service set up from the Prophet's city, from Yemen and from Mecca to the capital, with mules and camels. Al-Suyuti, quoting al-Dhahabi, says that this was the first postal service made from the Hijaz to Iraq. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.442}\n\nThe conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived and approximate. The place in the event data is [[place/baghdad|Baghdad]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mahdi-barid-hijaz",
    "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 166ھ میں [[person/al-mahdi|المہدی]] قصر السلام منتقل ہوا اور حکم دیا کہ مدینہ منورہ، یمن اور مکہ سے دارالخلافہ تک خچروں اور اونٹوں کے ذریعے ڈاک کا نظام قائم کیا جائے۔ سیوطی ذہبی سے نقل کرتے ہیں کہ سب سے پہلے حجاز سے عراق تک ڈاک کا نظام یہی بنا۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p.442}\n\nعیسوی کیلنڈر میں تبدیلی اخذ شدہ اور تقریبی ہے۔ واقعے کی معلومات میں مقام: [[place/baghdad|بغداد]]۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mahdi-barid-hijaz",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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   "to": "person/al-mahdi",
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  "event/captives-of-samalu",
  "event/founding-of-baghdad",
  "building/al-madrasa-al-nizamiyya-baghdad",
  "building/bayt-al-hikma",
  "building/bimaristan-adudi",
  "building/bimaristan-al-muqtadiri",
  "building/bimaristan-al-sayyida",
  "building/dar-al-ilm-baghdad"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}