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 "id": "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-jafar",
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 "slug": "mutah-martyrdom-of-jafar",
 "label": {
  "ar": "استشهاد جعفر بن أبي طالب وعقره فرسه",
  "en": "Martyrdom of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and his hamstringing of his horse"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بعد مقتل زيد أخذ جعفر بن أبي طالب الراية، واقتحم عن فرسه الشقراء فعقرها — وكان أول من عقر في الإسلام — ثم قاتل حتى قُتل. وأضاف ابن هشام (من أثق به) أنه أمسك اللواء بيمينه فقطعت ثم بشماله فقطعت فاحتضنه بعضديه حتى قُتل وهو ابن ثلاث وثلاثين سنة. وروى ابن هشام (ويقال) أن روميًا ضربه فقطعه بنصفين.",
  "en": "After Zayd's death Ja'far took the standard, dismounted and hamstrung his chestnut horse — the first such act in Islam — then fought until killed. Ibn Hisham adds (from a trusted source) that he gripped the banner with his right hand (cut off), then his left (cut off), then clasped it between his arms, dying at thirty-three. Ibn Hisham also records (ويقال) that a Roman cut him in two."
 },
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  "levant-iraq"
 ],
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  "period/prophetic-era"
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 "aliases": [],
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 629.6658384497971,
  "latest": 629.747975659975
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0629-09~",
   "hijri": "0008-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0629-09~",
   "hijri": "0008-05",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
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   "start": {
    "edtf": "0629-09~",
    "hijri": "0008-05",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
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    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ibn-hisham-saqqa juz' 4 p. 20",
   "generated_by": "kiro",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-4"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "kiro; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 p. 20; two Ibn Hisham variant flags in summary"
  }
 },
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بعد مقتل زيد أخذ [[person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib|جعفر بن أبي طالب]] الراية في [[event/battle-of-mutah|مؤتة]]. نزل عن فرسه الشقراء فعقرها، وذُكر أنه أول من عقر في الإسلام، ثم قاتل حتى قُتل. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زيادات ابن هشام",
     "markdown": "يضيف ابن هشام، عمن يثق به، أنه أمسك اللواء بيمينه فقُطعت، ثم بشماله فقُطعت، فاحتضنه بعضديه حتى قُتل وهو ابن ثلاث وثلاثين سنة. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nويذكر برواية «ويقال» أن رومياً ضربه فقطعه نصفين. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-jafar",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "After the killing of Zayd, [[person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib|Ja'far ibn Abi Talib]] took the banner at [[event/battle-of-mutah|Mu'tah]]. He dismounted from his sorrel horse and hamstrung it, and it is reported that he was the first to hamstring a mount in Islam; then he fought until he was killed. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ibn Hisham's additions",
     "markdown": "Ibn Hisham adds, on the authority of one he trusts, that he held the banner in his right hand until it was cut off, then in his left until that was cut off, then he embraced it with his upper arms until he was killed, aged thirty-three. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\nWith the report introduced by \"it is said\", a Roman struck him and cut him in two. {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-jafar",
    "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": "زید کی شہادت کے بعد [[event/battle-of-mutah|موتہ]] میں [[person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib|جعفر بن ابی طالب]] نے جھنڈا اٹھایا۔ انھوں نے اپنی سفید گھوڑی سے اتر کر اس کی کونچیں کاٹ دیں، اور کہا گیا ہے کہ اسلام میں گھوڑے کی کونچیں کاٹنے والے وہ پہلے شخص تھے۔ پھر وہ لڑتے ہوئے شہید ہو گئے۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ابن ہشام کی اضافی روایت",
     "markdown": "ابن ہشام، ایک ایسے راوی سے جس پر وہ اعتماد کرتے ہیں، یہ اضافہ کرتے ہیں کہ جعفر نے جھنڈا دائیں ہاتھ میں تھاما تو وہ کٹ گیا، پھر بائیں ہاتھ میں لیا تو وہ بھی کٹ گیا، تب انھوں نے اسے بازوؤں کے گھیرے میں لے لیا یہاں تک کہ شہید ہوئے، اور اس وقت ان کی عمر تینتیس سال تھی۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}\n\n«کہا گیا ہے» کے انداز میں روایت ہے کہ ایک رومی نے ان پر وار کر کے انھیں دو ٹکڑے کر دیا۔ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-jafar",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
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   "to": "person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib",
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  "person/jafar-ibn-abi-talib",
  "place/mutah",
  "event/mutah-dispatch-of-army",
  "event/mutah-khalid-command-withdrawal",
  "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-ibn-rawaha",
  "event/mutah-martyrdom-of-zayd",
  "journey/mutah-march"
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 }
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